Really Clever Quotes

#1. The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

Brian Celio

#3. I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.

Tove Jansson

#4. People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.

Meg Rosoff

#5. Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

Denise Mina

#6. Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

Ralph Fiennes

#7. Unless he's really clever," said Theresa. "Smarter than us?" said Peter. He and John Paul looked at each other. Then both of them shook their heads, said, "Naw," and then burst out laughing.

Orson Scott Card

#8. I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it was really clever to write a piece about him instead of Max Perkins,[Ernest] Hemingway, [John] Fitzgerald, or others that people have strong opinions of already.

Jude Law

#9. It so depends on each script, because you can say ... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

Amelia Warner

#10. She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.

Henry James

#11. It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

Richard D. James

#12. The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

A. N. Wilson

#13. As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.

Lenny Abrahamson

#14. Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.

Ellie Goulding

#15. 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

#16. I really made few uncrediable subscribes, which I want to put as "I'm glad, that I have done it". It's difficult to find such stuff, it's difficult without a knowledge to do something, but out there with this DUMB and Stupid people there is and people which are clever and smart.

Deyth Banger

#17. How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

Gore Vidal

#18. People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.

John Hodgman

#19. I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

Paul Weller

#20. Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little creatures. They are really just hungry animals looking for something to eat, and have no intention of ruining your happy hour.

Michael Dickinson

#21. Ever read this?"
"Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are.

John Fowles

#22. What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

Brett Dennen

#23. I love Lady Gaga! I think she's incredible. I think she's so clever - you know, about what she wears and when she does it. Plus, her music is just incredible. You can really compare her to Madonna now - she's really amazing.

Kerry Ellis

#24. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

John Grogan

#25. If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.

Michael Nesmith

#26. To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#27. A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

Ty Burrell

#28. My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.

Ellie Goulding

#29. Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

Marc Jacobs

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

Terry Pratchett

#31. I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

James Cosmo

#32. Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

Kate Moss

#33. I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

Kevin Nealon

#34. Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

Jane Goodall

#35. 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

#36. You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format.

Dick Latvala

#37. A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

Calista Flockhart

#38. Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's no heart? Has it not been decided that a clever woman is a sort of monster who can feel nothing? Ask anyone, they'll all tell you so.

Karolina Pavlova

#39. This Guph was really a clever rascal, and it seems a pity he was so bad, for in a good cause he might have accomplished much.

L. Frank Baum

#40. The machinery joining the vats was a nightmare jumble of pipes and flanges. Since you couldn't really hire a professional plumber to set up your deathtraps, some clever techie on Angus Caine's payroll must have done it himself with whatever parts he had on hand.

Craig Schaefer

#41. 14) Ladies, if a guy leaves you a voice mail that says 'I had a good time with you' what he REALLY means is 'I had a good time with you.' Ladies, please stop searching for secret meanings in what we say. We're men; we're not that clever.

Nelson Chereta

#42. And really, what is trust other than faith in a clever disguise?

Rick R. Reed

#43. [Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but
only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.

T.H. White

#44. Learn to use the knowledge of the past and you will look like a genius, even when you are really just a clever borrower.

Robert Greene

#45. I'm out to change people's attitudes about them. Wolves are a whole lot more than just predators who feast on a rancher's herd. They're smart and clever and loyal and courageours, and sometimes they do really stupid, silly things, just like people.

R.C. Ryan

#46. 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

#47. I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

Kacey Musgraves

#48. I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

Daisy Donovan

#49. You see, Earthman, they really are particularly clever hyper-intelligent pandimensional beings. Your planet and people have formed the matrix of an organic computer running a ten-million-year research program ... . Let me tell you the whole story. It'll take a little time.

Douglas Adams

#50. I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

James Lovelock

#51. Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.

John Connolly

#52. What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.

Alex Pareene

#53. I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.

Jason Lee

#54. What's magic, eh? Just wavin' a stick an' sayin' a few wee magical words. An' what's so clever aboot that, eh? But lookin' at things, really lookin' at 'em, and then workin' 'em oout, now, that's a real skill.

Terry Pratchett

#55. A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Benjamin Hoff

#56. 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

#57. The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

Warren Spector

#58. The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

Kurt Vonnegut

#59. From here it also looks a great deal bigger, because space is not really big, it is simply somewhere to be big in. Planets are big, but planets are meant to be big and there is nothing clever about being the right size.

Terry Pratchett

#60. Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

Max Hastings

#61. Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#62. He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?"
"Hurting.

Derek Landy

#63. There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance.

Scott Weiland

#64. If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick.

Jojo Moyes

#65. I really like clever men who challenge you.

E.L. James

#66. Nothing's changed. You'll go home. You'll be bored. You'll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You're too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don't even get your name right.

Neil Gaiman

#67. There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

Melissa Etheridge

#68. From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Warren Spector

#69. Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

Brian Tracy

#70. Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

Dalai Lama

#71. When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.

Olivier Megaton

#72. People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Rory Bremner