Quotes About Clever

Scccccratccch the most clever postmodern-relativist professor's Mercedes with a key, and you will see how fast the mask of relativism (with its pretense that there can be neither right nor wrong) and the cloak of radical tolerance come off.

Maybe, but she knows too much and she's clever too. She's just a girl now, but one day she'll be a woman and a clever woman's dangerous.

I'm sort of like Q in the James Bond films. Except, you know, I only get to hand out this one thing.

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

André was a clever and cultivated man but to some degree without scruples. During the occupation, he had lived in Benjamin Franklin's house, and upon departing (as noted earlier) he had made off with most of Franklin's treasured collection of books. He had also been one of Peggy Shippen's admirers and the architect of Howe's farewell meschianza bash.

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

You see, my boy, everything depends upon assurance here. A clever fellow can more easily become a minister than an under-secretary. One must obtrude one's self on people; not ask things of them.

In this kingdom where we now are," said he, "there lives a princess, who is so wonderfully clever that she has read all the newspapers in the world, and forgotten them too, although she is so clever.

The other investigators, all males and oh so clever, called her Squirt. Investigators. You get them started, they'll shred you with the cutting lines. But

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Damn tricky cats!

Was it possible—was it at all possible that she could come out of her most desperate choice with a man as clever as Odysseus who looked like Achilles and made love like Paris…?

Stories were so easy to control. Lady Lynx escaped because Zenobia created an escapable situation, and if anything unexpected happened to her characters, Zenobia had a clever plan to get them out of their new fix.

I like clever people. Dull ones irritate me, especially those who expect to be told what to do, and if they are not told, do nothing, even when something that needs doing is right in front of them.

Many folk are clever, lord Uhtred, but very few are wise.

My father tried to control you and said it couldn't be done. He also advised me never to underestimate you. He said you look stupid but act clever. I thought it was the other way around, lord.

This was a clever man, as clever as Alfred, and he knew that weakness invited war.

The energy used in thinking seems to have a chemical origin; for instance, a deficiency of iodine will turn a clever man into an idiot.

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.