Clever Quotes - Page 7

• I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

  Janette Barber

  Fashion, Thinking, Hair

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• Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Beautiful, Strong, Brave

  Geraldine McCaughrean (2010). “Peter Pan in Scarlet”, p.97, Oxford University Press - Children

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• Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Smart, Arousal

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• Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspiration, Ends, Estates

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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• The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Husband, Stupid, Men

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• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Business, Smart

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• In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Men, Secret

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• It was fun to be clever.

  David Bowie

  Fun

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Humans are really interesting. We're so clever, what we do with our brain. How we manage to con ourselves into thinking all sorts of things is really fascinating. By the same token, if we could just convince ourselves of things that would gather us together and powerfully turn things around for the good, that would be awesome. It's doubtful because we're such a fear-based species.

  Thandie Newton

  Thinking, Interesting, Brain

  Source: collider.com

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• I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Smart, Humor

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• Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Thinking, Would Be, World

  "Experts and experimental government" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• I do like Twitter. Writing is a solitary pursuit, and it can get lonely. I like to go into Twitter for a short period of time, communicate with clever friends, and then switch it off. That's perfect for me.

  Lauren Groff

  Lonely, Writing, Perfect

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• When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit, and at the same time be exciting. That's what professional boxing is about. You've got to be clever, you've got to be smart, and not get hit, and when you're able to do this, you're a fighter.

  Cus D'Amato

  Smart, Boxing, Able

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• It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

  Michael McKean

  Stupid, Spinal Tap, Lines

  "This Is Spinal Tap". www.imdb.com. 1984.

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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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• The worst storyline Ive ever been involved in I wasnt involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline.

  Erika Slezak

  Children, Pregnancy, Thank God

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• The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Mother, Friendly, My Best Friend

  "Giant spider takes up residence at Tate", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2007.

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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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• 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 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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• If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  Two, People, Rude

  'Good and Clever'

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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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