“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”
“DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.”
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
“What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.”
“Whenever I’ve chosen a song because it’s clever, it’s always turned out to be a mistake.”
“Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.”
“Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn’t make it right.”
“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 was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!”
“Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.”
“If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.”
“Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.”
“The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he’s got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.”
“If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.”
“Louis CK is so brilliant and smart and clever and funny and also very bizarre.”
“Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.”
“A lot of people don’t know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.”
“The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.”
“I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.”
“My dad’s a very shrewd, clever guy.”
“This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.”
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.”
“What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.”
“Elvis Costello’s song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It’s storytelling and it’s deeply intelligent and clever.”
“Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK.”
“Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.”
“We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with the very real question of whether we can be sustainable on this planet – whether or not, in fact, we can endure.”
“Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.”
“Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.”
“To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.”
“I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.”
“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
“It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one’s being clever.”
“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”
“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”
“Foursquare’s adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.”
“Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.”
“We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
“Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.”
“When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that’s what we did.”
“Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.”
“When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.”
“It’s not very hard to be clever. It’s far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.”
“I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.”
“Obama spoke so slowly because he, a clever and cultured man, had constantly to be on his guard against sounding it.”
“Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly wanting to be thought clever and cultured: the clever, cultured people don’t buy it, and the people don’t want a clever, cultured ruler.”
“An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.”
“The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don’t include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in a tweet.”
“The key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that’s where I have to be clever and make my runs. That’s where I come alive.”
“Sometimes I can switch into clever mode.”
“For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.”
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
“Because of the nature of Moore’s law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.”
“I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.”
“I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.”
“A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.”
“I’ve only ever seen a couple tiny home spaces that are actually a clever use of space.”
“Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.”
“Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.”
“That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.”
“Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.”
“I don’t like names that are clever or made-up sounding.”
“I’m not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.”
“Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.”
“He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.”
“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.”
“Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.”
“Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.”
“I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.”
“I think ‘Rake’ was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.”
“I’m not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.”
“Rock n’ roll is dirty, and it’s bad, and it’s either clever or it’s not clever.”
“Too clever is dumb.”
“If a film is very clever and well-written, that’s what gives you freedom as a director.”
“I don’t really wanna talk about politics, I’m not clever enough.”
“A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.”
“There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.”
“Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry’s (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying ‘all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.’”
“A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.”
“It’s difficult to be clean and clever at the same time, but a lot of our stuff was.”
“People may say that what I do is very clever, but it’s not really at all. It’s not Swift.”
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”
“It’s clever, but is it Art?”
“There is no bore like a clever bore.”
“The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn’t be an actor would be laughable in Russia.”
“I have a fantastic husband. Here’s the honeymoon part: I still think he’s the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I’ve ever known.”
“Maybe I’m a little biased, but shows like ‘Dexter’ and ‘Southland,’ I’m just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.”
“Film schools didn’t exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.”
“A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.”
“I wasn’t the classic comedy type; I wasn’t bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.”
“It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.”
“What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.”
“There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.”
“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
“One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.”
“One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.”
“Awards sell tickets, and they’re a clever publicity stunt.”
“A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they’re so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm’s length. They can be really funny, but they’re not really nourishing.”
“Clever tyrants are never punished.”
“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”
“I love clever lyrics.”
“I love lyrics that are not too clever.”
“There is nothing clever about confusion.”
“In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.”
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