Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.
I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest. " I know they're trying to be clever, but they're not.
The worst storyline Ive ever been involved in I wasnt involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline.
It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.
Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.
A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.
If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
I grew up in a little village in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted to do was to escape, to get out, to never have to marry somebody there. Of course, they were not dying to marry me. I was the worst thing a girl could be: thin, black, and clever.
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought
It's harder to be kind than clever
Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.
