Perspicacious Quotes

#1. A perspicacious lad, Mr. McLean. A perspicacious swine, indeed.

Pat Conroy

#2. I don't generally publicly respond to
reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers' responses to critics seem to me at best undignified.

China Mieville

#3. Don't worry," he said, that grandfatherly smile spreading across his face once more, "I've been fishing for over forty years. You've got plenty of time to catch up, maybe even pass what I've done. You're a perspicacious piscatorial pursuer, and I'm sure you'll catch the big ones.

S. Bradley Stoner

#4. One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor
outwitting the market.

John Allen Paulos

#5. Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Honore De Balzac

#6. Oh, this beast? It's ... perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

Scott Westerfeld

#7. We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Samuel Johnson

#8. I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

China Mieville

#9. Perspicacious individual I've met in years, you are

Harper Lee

#10. I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

Marisa Tomei

#11. There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#12. There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.

Jack Nicholson

#13. If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

George Saunders

#14. You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you.

Armistead Maupin

#15. Losing your job is a great blessing in disguise

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Small height is not a big problem, small thinking is a big problem; Dark face is not a big problem, dark mind the the biggest problem.

Sujit Meher

#17. The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

William Zinsser

#19. I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

Mason Cooley

#20. I think you were the wrong person for the Jace that I was, but not the Jace that I am now, the Jace you helped make me. Who is, incidentally, a Jace I like much better than the old one. You've changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that.

Cassandra Clare

#21. I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Angelina Jolie