Clever Quotes - Page 9

• Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Two, Cruelty

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.308, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Common Sense, Different

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

  Laura Riding

  Thinking, Imagination, No Friends

  "Progress of Stories". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter "Daisy and Venison", 1935.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Ambition, Simple, Thinking

  "Fears of a clown". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it.

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking, Rome, People

  TV Series "3 Minute Wonder" (Episode 2), (2006– ).

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Smart, Blue

  37 Copy quote

• 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.

  160 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  119 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• System uptime, data protection, and identity theft are weighty issues. It takes real ingenuity to out-think the fraudsters who are trying to steal identities and hack into enterprise systems. The 12 smart companies that debuted security solutions today at DEMO have designed serious, and seriously clever, innovations.

  Chris Shipley

  Real, Smart, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.

  Neville Goddard

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

  Neville Goddard (2014). “Awakened Imagination: Includes The Search”, p.8, Courier Corporation

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

  Robert Holden

  Happiness, Wise, Wisdom

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.54, Hay House, Inc

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

  Robert Holden

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  10 Copy quote

• There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

  J. B. Priestley

  Genius, Too Much, Young Writers

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  Edward Gibbon

  Education, Ideas, People

  7 Copy quote

• Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early.... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.

  John Lee Mahin

  Children, Names, Musician

  5 Copy quote

• In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

  James Denney

  Church, Wonderful, Christ

  19 Copy quote

• I would never believe it of you, my boy, regardless of the schemers your mother and sister turned out to be. You may not be the most clever boy, nor the most prudent, nor the most gentlemanlike, nor...Edward cleared his throat.Right! But you have a good heart, and I have every hope that with the proper education and mentoring you will be credit to the family yet.

  Julie Klassen

  Mother, Believe, Heart

  Julie Klassen (2010). “The Silent Governess”, p.406, Bethany House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

  Eddie Vedder

  Stars, Fun, Believe

  17 Copy quote

• What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story.

  H. L. Mencken

  Eye, Psych, Hands

  The American Mercury Magazine, p. 136, May 1933.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

  Steven Hall

  Writing, Together, Facts

  4 Copy quote

• The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

  Criss Jami

  Height, Ability, Seeming

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love Lady Gaga! I think she's incredible. I think she's so clever - you know, about what she wears and when she does it. Plus, her music is just incredible. You can really compare her to Madonna now - she's really amazing.

  Kerry Ellis

  Thinking, Doe, Incredibles

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source