My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it
Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.
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.
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
People sometimes ask: Is Putin a clever man? Yes, he's clever in his own way, when it comes to political intrigue, and he's got a good head for numbers. But as soon as he took office, the first thing he did was to institute a new anthem based on the old Soviet one; that was a very major step, not a petty issue. He began at once to appeal to people's basest instincts. It is true that people in Russia are used to obedience.
I just want to thank Wayne for even mentioning me. I've been following his career since he started, just watching him evolve. He was always clever with the rhymes. My own quest was always to get my music out to everybody in the world and working with Wayne is truly a way to get it out there.
Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.
Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.
My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.
In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.
Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.