Quotes About Clever

I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.

This was done by someone who believes himself very clever, and believes others are very stubid.

Be Clever, Think Clever and Do Clever

He blew out his breath and sat back. He'd almost wished for some clever evil plot, which they could then engage to out-clever. It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures.

Exploiting this fear, Rockefeller worked out a clever bargain with the Erie Railroad

I never came into contact with any class of men so smart and able as they are in their business.

Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after.

Ah! – esclamò il Gatto ascoltando. – Questa Donna è molto saggia; ma non saggia come me.

I've got lots of brains, said Wombat. You listen to them rattle. He shook his head and it rattled beautifully.

there were three bad mistakes you could make, but if you made only two of the three you could be forgiven. The mistakes were: to be foreign; to be clever; and to be bad at games.

At an English boarding school in the early 1960s, he quickly discovered, there were three bad mistakes you could make, but if you made only two of the three you could be forgiven. The mistakes were: to be foreign; to be clever; and to be bad at games […]. He made all three mistakes. He was foreign, clever, non-sportif.

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

For a man reckoned clever, he got wedged in a lot of stupid corners.

It took a clever man to figure out a way to make a profit off his bad habits.

I like a twist of meaning.

But Louis XIV had clever ministers, mainly men of humble origin chosen for their outstanding ability.

You're nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed.

Being clever they did not care for animals. One man had never seen a hedgehog. ~from The Longest Journey

It's a simple fact of life that a clever private detective needs a much less clever police officer in much the same way as a photograph needs both light and darkness.

The defenders can be clever and use everything within the laws of the game to stop the strikers scoring goals and, while some pulling is allowed, you need to be clever.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

There is no such thing as a clever crook. If he was really that clever he wouldn't be a crook at all.

Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.