Clever Description Quotes

#1. The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

John Stuart Mill

#2. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

H.G.Wells

#3. Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

Iggy Pop

#4. He had his head in hand hands, and his tie looked like it had been put on by an enemy, and was strangling him.

Caitlin Moran

#5. How quaint the old twenty-four-hour clock began to look to our eyes, how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, as neat as walnut shells. How had we believed, we wondered, in such simplistic things?

Karen Thompson Walker

#6. I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Matt LeBlanc

#7. All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

Bob Newhart

#8. I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it? I'm the one really telling it, after all.

Anne Rice

#9. There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

Tahir Shah

#10. Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.

Emily Fridlund

#11. The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

Leland Stanford

#12. A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

Tea Obreht

#13. Being lost is the way, how else can you be found?

Elizabeth Cunningham

#14. Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Alexander Pope

#15. I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

Regina Spektor

#16. I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

Javier Bardem

#17. Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.

Tracy Morgan