Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.
Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.
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.
I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers' had all of this great, giant action, but for all of the clever dialogue, it's the moments.
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.
The hardest thing when you're making a zombie movie is, 'How am I going to kill these zombies? I need a clever way to knock these guys off.'
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.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
I have clients from 19 to 80 years old, and the way I work means that they can take the same dress and shorten, lengthen it, remove the sleeve, adjust details - and make it their own. They get a piece that is right for them. It's a clever way of shopping in this economy.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.
