I think ‘Rake’ was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.
I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?
I was so lucky. I grew up with an incredibly strong grandmother, mother and sister. All three, independent, fierce, clever women who were hard workers, had goals and visions for themselves, and were really ambitious. And, they didn’t apologize for those goals.
Hugo Strange is interesting in the sense that he’s a master manipulator. He doesn’t really engage Batman in any sort of physical way. His weapon is his mind, and he’s very incisive and clever: he reads people and sizes them up almost instantly.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
I really like clever men who challenge you.
Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Using modern guitar techniques and modern methods on an early instrument is not a very clever thing to do, because it is the authentic spirit of the instrument that should dictate the quality and characteristic of the sound.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
I love the sci-fi movies where it’s from the point of view of humans in that situation… When it becomes too clever in its ideas, the cyber-punk, high-tech thing, it becomes more about something else.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
So much of the time, in politics, we try to come up with these clever turns of phrase, slogans or messages, but what the public really wants is just the simple facts.
Foursquare’s adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
The clever thing about the designs on ‘Strictly’ is that the razzle-dazzle comes from the materials used in making the dresses rather than because the cut or style is plunging or revealing.
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.
I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they’re clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I’m not worried about whether I’m clever.
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
I can sit and write clever things, but that never quite works as well as when I’m just chatting about stupid things in the moment.
He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?
If you’ve got someone fighting your corner, someone who loves you and you love, and is also really, really clever, the battle is so much easier.
I like a clever guy, a real gent.
Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
It’s up to me to use my brain, be clever, find the pockets of space, and get on the ball.
I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there’s something very appealing and rather heroic in that.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that’s probably what it is – and there’s lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.
I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.
Everyone is different but I love to watch that type of football: the clever players, the technical players. The beautiful game.
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it’s all natural.
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’d rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That’s not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it’s too easy.
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.
On telly, if it’s not the right kind of show, I revert back to my ‘Girlie Show’ persona, become this daft, bawdy caricature of myself and I’m not actually like that, I’m actually quite – not clever, but smart with my words.
The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don’t include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in a tweet.
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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.
Ive always done accents and stupid voices. But I went to school in Hampstead, where most of my mates were Jewish, and Jewish North London humour is so clever that I never thought I was funny.
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues – or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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.
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.
If a film is very clever and well-written, that’s what gives you freedom as a director.
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.
I don’t like names that are clever or made-up sounding.
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’.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it’s not really at all. It’s not Swift.
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.’
