Clever Quotes - Page 38

• Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

  Jim Fixx

  Luck, Matter, Fortune

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• People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,.

  Frank Dobson

  Children, Eye, People

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• I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.

  Winston Graham

  Pages, Enough, Egotistical

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• You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.

  Leonard Maltin

  Want, Helping, Impression

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• So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

  Michael Parkinson

  Smart, Boys, Eggs

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• If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Eye, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.

  Viviane Reding

  Use, States, Members

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• If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.

  Dave Gorman

  Thinking, Sound, Stories

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• All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us

  Luc de Clapiers

  Unfair, Beneficial, Ifs

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• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Literature, Reason, Obstinacy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.70

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• You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.

  Thomas Sowell

  Responsibility, Color, Civilization

  "What Ails Baltimore? Liberalism, Corruption & Incompetence" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 10, 2015.

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• For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Smart, Lying, Men

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.75, Grove Press

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• I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Jobs, Men, Views

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.755, Wordsworth Editions

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• A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dirty, Letters, Matter

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• I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stupid, Men, People

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.181

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• It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Ducks, Apples

  "Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company". Book by Owen W. Linzmayer, 2004.

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• Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

  Donald A. Norman

  Paid

  27th annual conference of the Travel and Tourism Research Association, Las Vegas, p. 143, June 1996.

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• If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.

  Eric Alterman

  Alarms, Doe, Sneaky

  Eric Alterman (2008). “Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals”, p.17, Penguin

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• God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

  J. G. Ballard

  God, Race, Ideas

  "The benign catastrophist". Interview with Susie Mackenzie, September 6, 2003.

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• In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Things In Life, Circles

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people - the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive.

  Enoch Powell

  People, Important, Ordinary

  Enoch Powell's Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 19, 1968.

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• The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

  Charles Bukowski

  Easter, Children, Women

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant's question "What is man?" and to substitute the question "What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

  Richard Rorty

  Philosophical, Animal, Grandchildren

  Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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• A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Often Is, Giving

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1776, e-artnow

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• I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Boston, Circles

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.16

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