Clever Quotes - Page 12

• I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Thinking, Giving, Actors

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.

  Sue Grafton

  Smart, Book, Jumping

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

  Ian O'Doherty

  Funny, Children, Smart

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• Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

  Gogen Yamaguchi

  Art, Moving, Light

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• He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Learning, Men, Order

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• Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

  Vandana Shiva

  Diversity, Perspective, Energy

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever magazine article. That is also the great power of the internet, where people share their opinions without the annoying screen of the media, and so much of the presence of my books has come from the Internet. It's a new era, a new form of war, and I embrace it.

  Robert Greene

  War, Book, Media

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

  Siraj Wahhaj

  Government, United States, Ifs

  "Jihad At the DNC" by Robert Spencer, www.frontpagemag.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.

  Melissa d'Arabian

  Responsibility, Want, Example

  Melissa d'Arabian, Raquel Pelzel (2012). “Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes & Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week”, p.12, Clarkson Potter

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• Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

  Roger Kahn

  Boxing, Spotlight, Way

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• Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

  John Carmack

  Years, Law, Numbers

  GameSpy.com Interview with Tom Ham, January 2004.

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• One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.

  Harold Klemp

  Kindness, Love Is, Speech

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• Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

  Tim Robbins

  Should Have, Cities, Aggravation

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• I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Teacher, Children, Home

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• A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

  Calista Flockhart

  Funny, Focus, Important

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• We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Flower, Holiday

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• I’m actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Smart, Blue

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• Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, ‘Maman’ symbolizes her mother; “The friend, because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Mother, Important, My Best Friend

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• Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Men, Dare

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.64, Random House

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• If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.

  Thom Yorke

  Wish, Ifs, Millions

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• Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Mother, Morning, June

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1374, Delphi Classics

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• Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.

  Grenville Kleiser

  People, Culture, Tone

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophy, Stupid, Unity

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• You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

  Mary MacLane

  Girl, Writing, Heart

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• Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

  Confucius

  Justice, Virtue, Impatience

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