Quotes About Clever Boy

#1. Was... That a "you've been a clever boy" kiss? Or... Uh...

Alex Scarrow

#2. He had seen - clever, clever boy that he was - that she could not be won by wooing; and he had approached her sidelong, as a friend rather than a lover, meeting her in the woods and telling her stories and making her love him without her noticing.

Ken Follett

#3. You ran miles and miles to find me, didn't you? You clever boy! I don't know if I should be scolding you or hugging you!" And with that, I wrapped my weak arms around my knight in furry armor. "You're the best friend a girl could ever have, Maze. I love you.

Karen Luellen

#4. So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

Michael Parkinson

#5. I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

Ian Anderson

#6. The backfire, my dear boy, of exiling the cleverest criminals of the nation to one place and requiring them to use their ingenuity is that they will
and you can't control what they do with it.

Sam Starbuck

#7. My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it. Says O'LiamRoe

Dorothy Dunnett

#8. I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?

Natalie Dormer

#9. A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#10. I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

Patrick Ness

#12. Be terrified. Nothing in life is certain. It does not owe you anything, and if it decides to take something from you it will. You must accept this truth. Accept the dreadful possibility that your blind optimism is merely a fancied lie.

H.S. Crow

#13. I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.

Paul Auster

#14. I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

Ernest Rutherford

#15. The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.

Louise Lester

#16. When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

Laini Taylor

#17. Years ago this was just a place where I was assigned to work. Today looking at this place represents the opportunity that God allowed me to see the beauty of His works. The difference in then and now - I guess our views are a representative of our growth. Thankful.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#18. But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it ... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

Roger Sessions

#19. Knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys.

Malcolm Gladwell

#20. I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.

Aurora Aksnes

#21. I took a very careful hold of the metal door handle. No shocks and nothing exploded. I pulled gently and the door yielded, but I stayed on the balls of my feet. If I felt the tension of a wire or heard a click, I was going to set a new land speed record for a scared white guy in a hazmat suit.

Jonathan Maberry

#22. I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

Michael Kors

#23. Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while.

Bugsy Siegel

#24. I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

Scott Cohen

#25. What is it?" Hadrian asked.

"Fighting," he replied at last.

"Fighting? Who?" Hadrian asked.

"I can't hear the color of their uniforms." Royce smirked. "Soldiers, though. I hear swords on armor.

Michael J. Sullivan

#26. I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

John Lennon

#27. I'm, like, super-clumsy and weird and funny and dorky.

Shantel VanSanten

#28. My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#29. Well, Henry, if I were you I wouldn't worry", said the lawyer. "My belief is that your boy's born lucky, and in the long run that's better than to be born clever or rich.

W. Somerset Maugham

#30. To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

Hugh Laurie