242 Clever Quotes for You to Enjoy

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Barbara Ehrenreich

History Natural Clever Favors Only Selection Operated Human Human History Natural Selection

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. Benjamin Disraeli

Clever Nine-Tenths Books Nonsense Existing

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever. Bill Bradley

Great Clever Think Presidents More Always Been Little

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. Bill Kristol

History Half Clever Too Sign Reliable More Throughout Attempt Cleverness Been Cultural Decadence Often Decline Even

Louis CK is so brilliant and smart and clever and funny and also very bizarre. Bill Skarsgard

Funny Smart Brilliant Clever Bizarre Also Very Louis

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. Billy Wilder

Clever Too Also Obvious Make Audience Subtleties

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. Brian Celio

Somebody Clever Own My Own Except Write Obviously Stole Quotes Really

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. Bryan Adams

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While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic. Charles Frazier

Writing Mind Clever Cold Worlds Carolina Though He Wrote Vulnerable Climbs Mountain Southern Jack North North Carolina Same While Much Held Landscape Appalachian Who Map Maps Travels Early Two Imagined

Whether I'm making a gluten-free cookie or a lactose-free milkshake, my end goal is always to make it so awesome, clever, and creative that you'll want to indulge whether you have a sensitivity, dietary nuance, or don't. Christina Tosi

You Creative Clever Awesome Indulge Make Always Making Goal End Dietary Want Whether Sensitivity Cookie Nuance

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not. Claudia Winkleman

Clever Never Because Tall Felt Am Either Show Need

Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK. Claudio Ranieri

Clever OK He Intelligent Manager Fantastic

The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious! Constance Wu

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I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else. Craig Ferguson

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The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that agenda is seeming clever and/or taking someone who has received more than her fair share of attention down a notch. Curtis Sittenfeld

Book Clever Down Responding Some Someone Seeming More Share Taking Attention Sincerely Fair Fair Share Him Sort Reviewer Than Often Notch Agenda Who Her Received Nightmare

One way to think of the tax system is as a massive Swiss cheese. Each hole is an exemption created by a chancellor in pursuit of good headlines - a hole waiting to be filled by the clever accountants who work for Starbucks or Jimmy Carr. Daniel Hannan

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I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome. David Archuleta

Love Wish Clever Awesome She Were Just Her

In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what? David Fahrenthold

Law Clever Past Paper Say Punishment Minor Broom Area Had Look Office Closets Moved Break In The Past Rooms Exploits Your Whole Activists Thing Gray Gray Area