Quotes by Clever Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police. Margaret Atwood should-havecleverjobs You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you. Marie Lu junecleverpeople I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom. Mariella Frostrup wrinklesblondeclever People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach contradictioncleverpeople We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. Marcus Tullius Cicero carpe-diemwiseclever No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own. Mark Haddon literatureclevermind Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. Mark Haddon work-outsomething-newclever I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living Mark Helprin requirementssoulclever 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. Mark Lawrence ignoranceclevermen But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. Mark Rylance dinnercleverideas We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart. Mark Thomas cleverpeoplethinking A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch. Mark Twain lunchlawclever Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? Mark Twain cleverwittyfunny One genius has made many clever artists. Martial geniusartistclever The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about. Mark Twain cleverlyingblood Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen Martin Mull humanscleverwater Ms. Merkel's attempt to present herself as a Social Democrat was a clever move. But it's not working anymore. The divisions between the CDU and CSU have simply become too great for that. Martin Schulz divisionclevermoving Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions. Marvin Olasky tough-questionscleverbook When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all. Mary Alice wallhurtclever I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child. Mary Augusta Ward cleverteacherchildren«3637383940414243444546»
