Quotes About Clever Ideas

#1. But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

Mark Rylance

#2. Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas.

John Robinson

#3. First, we break bread and drink wine together, telling the story of Jesus and his death, because Jesus knew that this set of actions would explain the meaning of his death in a way that nothing else
no theories, no clever ideas
could ever do.

N. T. Wright

#4. To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. The students in your youth ministry don't need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model - a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.

Doug Fields

#6. I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

Elizabeth Peters

#7. You're the best man in the whole world."
"Nah." He shook his head, grinning. "I'm still a piece of shit. Just a piece of shit who loves the shit out of you.

Nicole Williams

#8. Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven't been clever enough to reduce 'it' to its essence.

Phil Dourado

#9. where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

George Washington

#11. No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

Virginia Woolf

#12. What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.

Arthur Eddington

#13. I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

Juan Gris

#14. To clever plans,' said Kell, toasting his brother. 'And dashing princes.'
'To masked magicians,' said Rhy, swiping the wine.
'To mad ideas.'
'To the Essen Tasch.'
'Wouldn't it be amazing,' murmured Rhy later, when the bottle was empty, 'if we got away with it?

V.E Schwab

#15. They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by calling them 'clever.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. My show is an adult comedy show, but it isn't offensive. Your kids could listen to it, even though I hope they wouldn't 'get' most of it. But I get a lot of fan mail from soccer moms saying 'I love having your CD because I can listen to it with my kids in the car.'

Henry Cho

#17. I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. The current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#19. It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

Herodotus

#20. It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Dorothea Lange

#21. You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

E. M. Forster

#22. Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

Nicolas Chamfort

#23. I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

Daniel Kahneman

#24. I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.

Terry Pratchett

#25. Be Clever, Think Clever and Do Clever

Robin James

#26. They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and who can be counted on never to make a blunder.

W. Somerset Maugham

#27. This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.

Adriano Celentano

#28. It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

Ian Hunter

#29. God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

J.G. Ballard

#30. From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

Cassandra Clare

#32. Unfortunately, I somehow equated rebelling with turning into a giant asshole.

Moxie Mezcal

#33. Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. ... Faith forged in the furnace of trials and tears is marked by trust and testimony.
Only God can count the sacrifice; only God can measure the sorrow; only God can know the hearts of those who serve Him.

Thomas S. Monson

#35. Words from the past: It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

Robert Breault

#36. What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Susan George

#37. In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.

Bob Odenkirk