Quotes About Clever

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus.

These disasters are the work of our twin natures. Clever and infantile. We've built a world too complicated and dangerous for our quarrelsome natures to manage.

I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting.

I love 'Girls.' The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can't believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It's really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

I left the Army in 2000 and went into industry before I started appearing on TV in 2003. My best job there was on a series called 'Crafty Tricks Of War' for the BBC. I loved that because it celebrated how clever and inventive people are and the ingenuity that goes into solving problems.

Watch 'Dog with a Blog' to get a good laugh, to see me, of course, and to see an awesome, awesome talking dog who is the cleverest, most awesome dude in the world. He's really, really adorable and cute, and it's really cool seeing what kind of tricks he has up his sleeve.

I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.

I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

Every worthwhile plan is diabolical.

If you're writing a full-length novel, you don't need to bend over backward trying to be clever in the first line or two. Readers will understand that there's a lot of story to tell, and they'll give you some space to do that. Don't rush the opening.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

Grace O'Malley is a crafty devil.

I knew that she was so clever that it was unnecessary for her to be beautiful.

Solya may not be wicked, but he likes to be too clever for everyone's good.

What I'm searching for is the opposite of an intellectual, in other words, someone intelligent.