Quotes About Canny

#1. Children were in fact ferocious little animals, sharp and canny and hurt and eager to inflict hurt themselves, who were trying to get what they needed in life.

Pamela Erens

#2. The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.

Jay Parini

#3. Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

Geraldine Brooks

#4. Frugal is an old-fashioned, mostly unused word and frugality is is an old-fashioned mostly unused virtue that has been waiting for hard times to come back. The Scots have another word for it - canny.

Keith Smith, Hard Times Handbook, 1984

Keith Smith

#5. One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man, and the British Empire a different institution.

E. M. Forster

#6. Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions ...

Gore Vidal

#7. I notice that Andy is watching our exchange with the still, silent fascination of a fly on the wall that is canny enough to be aware of the existence of swatters.

Charles Stross

#8. Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover ... refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.

Norman Vincent Peale

#9. 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

#10. Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Jessica Savitch

#11. She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

Alex Shakar

#12. The idea had always struck Shader as bizarre: entrusting the governance of a country to the whims of an uneducated mob. No sense in it. No continuity. Not to mention that a canny would-be tyrant could easily hoodwink the masses into electing him. It was one small step from freedom to dictatorship.

D.P. Prior

#13. Schmidt is a canny little kobold.

Elizabeth Peters

#14. I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.

Loren Eiseley

#15. Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Jerome Bruner

#16. No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.

Raymond E. Feist

#17. Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy efficient measures which help them to save money and the planet.

Sarah Beeny

#18. Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Lord Mountbatten

#19. Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#20. My need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache.

Alice Munro

#21. Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Emile M. Cioran

#22. Who's calling?"
"Don't insult me like that," the voice says.
I stop. Was I just insulting?

Peter Hedges

#23. A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

Gregory David Roberts

#24. Man was made to swim. Swimming is a natural sport, performed in harmony with nature.

Dan Stephenson

#25. Science and observation can only ever tell us the way that things are. They have no influence on the way that things should be.

Lewis N. Roe

#26. I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

Kat Graham

#27. The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Muhammad Yunus

#28. The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#29. All I owe the world is my art

Sherman Alexie

#30. There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.

Chuck Feeney

#31. History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. I don't usually have time for TV. When I get home at night, I just want to fall asleep.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#33. Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

Chely Wright

#34. In time," he said with a sigh, "I found a woman in a lowly hut, a cunning woman, a healer, such a thing as men call a witch and a hag. Hesketh was her name. She was a prisoner of hideousness as was I.

Anne Rice

#35. Either enjoy happiness or enjoy misery. The choice is yours.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!

Kim Jong Il