Zitat des Tages über Klug / Clever:
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
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.
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
I really like clever men who challenge you.
I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.
I would've loved to dress Diana Vreeland. I just loved her work as a creative woman and as a business woman - unpredictable, exciting, fun, and very, very clever.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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.'
I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.
I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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.
I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.