Quotes by Clever I had in mind a case close to my family, friends of my parents, who seemed to be the perfect bourgeois family, and a young boy, who when he was 17, committed suicide. It was such a shock. The parents didn't understand. Nobody understood why he did that. Everybody was exploring his life, trying to understand what the problem was. Everybody had a feeling that this guy had the perfect life: he was beautiful, he was clever... but he did that. I had that in mind, about Isabelle in Young and Beautiful, for the parents to see adolescents like aliens. Francois Ozon suicide clever beautiful Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody like Chris Ware, who has an emotional quality to his work - but it's boiled down and it's very sober and spare. Each word has great weight. Comics are not just pictures, but it is graphic design in the sense that they are composed and architected in a specific way. Francoise Mouly emotional clever art The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level. F. Scott Fitzgerald garden clever tea Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld passion clever men People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,. Frank Dobson eye clever children No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. Francois de La Rochefoucauld clever silly men Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. Frank Moore Colby intelligent clever life A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. Francois de La Rochefoucauld good-luck clever men There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do. Francois de La Rochefoucauld enough clever men Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld passion clever men Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick. Frank Pittman strong struggle clever 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 player clever feet There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. Francois de La Rochefoucauld clever opportunity people A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt perfectly-good clever men The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. Francois de La Rochefoucauld becoming clever desire The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. Fred Allen church-choir clever funny There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. Francois de La Rochefoucauld appreciate clever men There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage. Francois de La Rochefoucauld able clever people Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. Fred Wilson adoption games clever We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. Francois de La Rochefoucauld cleverness clever «1415161718192021222324»