Clever Quotes - Page 12

I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."

In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect!

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

I drink therefore I am.

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

A good Judoka never anticipates his action in a match, but his mind is as clever as a polished mirror which enables him to foresee precisely anything to happen and he displays freedom of his physique to cope with any change. Such mental state and physical action are called sei or tranquility and do or action, sometimes they are called ju and go or tenderness and sturdiness, in and yo or negative and positive, etc.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

Medium clever,” Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.” “I’m always so glad I have no idea what you’re vacantly chattering about,” said Jace. “It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.