Very Clever Quotes - Page 2

• Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Clever, Player, Feet

  "Messi Leaves La Liga Greats Trailing". uk.reuters.com. November 23, 2014.

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• But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven – number seven it can count. They have made an observation. They are very clever birds.

  R. K. Laxman

  Clever, Numbers, Childhood

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• I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.

  Janna Levin

  Mother, Clever, Believe

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• In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Clever, Character

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• Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

  Mickey Rooney

  Clever, Unique, Men

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• I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.

  Erich Fromm

  Clever, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

  Maureen Dowd

  Clever, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Lars von Trier is very, very, very clever about women. He gives the woman a space that I don't know any filmmaker does. Because in Breaking The Waves, protagonist Emily Watson is the Christ. Which man is doing that? I don't know any man giving that space to a woman. No one.

  Chantal Akerman

  Clever, Men, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got two wonderful children, but his life is music. And he's very clever with it.

  Susan Ann Sulley

  Children, Clever, Mad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At uni I met a lot of people I had nothing in common with. Some were very clever, some very rich, some very sporty. Some of them became my best friends, but not at first. Having things in common isn't always the best start to a friendship. I'd stick with it! Also, try to chat to people when they're on their own. So many people feel they need to perform in big groups.

  John Robins

  Clever, People, Trying

  "Ask John: university advice from comedian John Robins". The Telegraph interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 16, 2017.

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• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  Ian Hislop

  Mother, Witty, Clever

  "Ian Hislop: satirist in chief". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

  Gore Vidal

  Clever, Thinking, Years

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• So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

  Walter Cronkite

  Clever, Men, Thinking

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• I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

  Nathan Fillion

  Clever, Eye, Men

  "Comic Con 2011: CASTLE Interviews With Nathan Fillion, Seamus Dever, Jon Huertas, Molly Quinn and Executive Producer Laurie". Interview With Dave Trumbore, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

  Les Dawson

  Clever, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

  Rory Bremner

  Clever, People, May

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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  Patrice Leconte

  Clever, Giving, Directors

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

  David Attenborough

  Clever, Thinking, Way

  "Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things will only get worse" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

  Charles Darwin

  Clever, Science, Night

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.174, NYU Press

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• Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

  J. K. Rowling

  Clever, Knowing, Speaks Out

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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• You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I’m not clever—I’m a genius.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Morning, Clever, Men

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “Nyphron Rising”, p.99, Ridan Publishing

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• And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

  Suzanne Collins

  Clever, Wells, Peeta

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games”, p.253, Scholastic

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• But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

  John Green

  Clever, Drawing, Abstract

  "Fictional characters: Frannie, Hazel Grace Lancaster". The Fault in Our Stars, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

  Anthony Minghella

  Girl, Clever, Kids

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