Clever Girls Quotes

#1. So it's tempting to read other people's lives as cautionary fables or repudiations of our own, to covet or denigrate them instead of seeing them for what they are: other people's lives, island universes, unknowable. Not

Tim Kreider

#2. The World Itself:
When she held out her arms, the world itself wrapped around me & held me tight.

Brian Andreas

#3. Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine looked more like the enemy, and death the friend. (p. 184)

Katy Butler

#5. I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.

Katherine Waterston

#6. The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

Colleen Atwood

#7. Take everything as a compliment, you can never be insulted.

Joe Abercrombie

#8. Listen, Hermione, I can tell it's not a girl. I can just tell."
"The truth is that you don't think a girl would have been clever enough," said Hermione angrily.
"How can I have hung round with you for five years and not think girls are clever?" said Harry, stung by this.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Plain girls who were also clever were a ha'pence a dozen.

Julie Anne Long

#10. They stood high on top of the hill overlooking the glen, the water rushing by, the sheep grazing on the green grass across the burn, and white clouds passing overhead against the blue sky.
He still had hold of her arm, but then he released her, cupped her face with both hands, and kissed her.

Terry Spear

#11. At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Salma Hayek

#12. Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.

Maurice Allais

#13. You somehow didn't expect cleverness from a girl this beautiful; beautiful girls did not, as a rule, have to be clever. So far as Bert could tell, all beautiful girls had to do was wake up in the morning.

Stephen King

#14. We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.

Malala Yousafzai

#15. You can have the whole world looking out for you, Pari, but it is not a substitute for that one special person to share your life with.

Farahad Zama

#16. We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

Angela Davis

#17. Girls are just as clever as boys, and don't you forget it!

E. Nesbit

#18. 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!

Anthony Minghella

#19. I love 'Girls.' The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can't believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It's really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.

Helen George

#20. I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.

Cassandra Clare

#21. Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite
getting something down.

Julia Cameron

#22. American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Oscar Wilde

#23. How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?

J.K. Rowling

#24. People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

Diablo Cody

#25. To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

Neal Stephenson