Quotes About Clever

About Nora Broad} Miss Marple: Was she a girl that did well in school and all that? Mrs. Black: No she wasn't, heh... She was idle, and she wasn't too clever to books either. No, she was "all for the boys." From the time she was twelve years old, onwards.

What beats me—it always does—is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

Secret Service, I suppose," said Mrs. Oliver. "You can't tell me so, I know, but he wouldn't have been asked otherwise this evening. The four murderers and the four sleuths - Scotland Yard. Secret Service. Private. Fiction. A clever idea.

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

I wasn't the crazy kid bouncing off the walls, I would just sit back a make comments and I made people laugh.

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

Here then are the choices we all face moment by moment: Will we aim to be impressive? Will we expect to be in complete control? Will we ensure that we always come out on top as winners? Or will we be happy for the power of Christ to rest upon us in our endless weakness? 'No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.' Neither can any church.

In the early 60s, you read your essays to your supervisor rather than hand them in. I was both lazy and clever, and realised I didn't need to write essays at all, I could simply talk with some notes in front of me.

Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

Braininess is attractive

If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

He was too clever. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.

We think we're so clever. And yet we're always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.

A clever woman could solve puzzles. A fearless woman might ask difficult questions, seek answers in places others would shun. A woman who understood magic might see what an ordinary person was blind to.

The result was that, far from heeding my throbbing shame, by cleverly sidestepping the real problem I inevitably involved myself deeper and deeper.

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!