Clever Quotes
Lines that admire quick thinking and inventive minds.
Cleverness shows up in a sibling who worked out the family's puzzles first, in songwriters who favor sharp lyrics, and in teammates who find ways around a defense without breaking the rules. This page rounds up quotes about that kind of quick, inventive thinking. For related pages see Clever People.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.
Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.
Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.
It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
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.
Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
I rate Dave Luiz as a top defender. He's very clever. But I don't know if he's as quick as me. And if he kicks me, he kicks me. It's fine. I can't react to anything.
When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.
That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
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