Clever Quotes

It's not so bad.Melancholia looked at her. You're lying.I'll get used to it. So will you.I... I don't think I'll be able to.I'll be there to help when you need it.But I hate you.Valkyrie smiled. No you don't.No, I do. I want to kill you and stuff.We actually became friends in those caves.That's not what happened, said Melancholia.We're pals. We're buddies.” If my wrists weren't in shackles, my hands would be round your throat.You want to hug my throat because we're friends.

~ Derek Landy

Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after will. He admired his skill with a sword and his courage in battle. But sometimes, just sometimes, he felt an overwhelming desire to ram the young warrior's head against a convenient tree.

~ John Flanagan

He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?Hurting.

~ Derek Landy

Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.

~ Derek Landy

Please don't arrest me.Listen to me, I'm not going to arrest you, ok? I'm not a cop.Are you sure?Am I sure I'm not a cop? yes, I'm sure.You could be undercover.

~ Derek Landy

You promise?I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

~ Derek Landy

I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me. It was your humility, wasn't it?

~ Derek Landy

This isn't the first time I've used this, and the test subject showed no signs of impaired cognitive ability.Who was the test subject? asked Aurora.I test everything out on myself before taking it into the field.She stared at him. You zapped your own brain?And it didn't do me any harm apart from the dizziness and the vomiting spells and the weirdly persistent ringing in my ears. Also the blackouts and the mood swings and the creeping paranoia. Apart from that, zero side effects, if you don't count the numb fingertips. Which I don't.

~ Derek Landy

What are we going to do when we get into the temple, anyway? Are we going to fight our way through the Necromancers on our

~ Derek Landy

He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.

~ James Dashner

Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.

~ James Dashner

Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you.

~ Bobby Darnell

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

~ Paul Graham

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.

~ Paula Pell

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.

~ Gene Roddenberry

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

~ Ken Livingstone

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

~ Sylvia Plath

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

~ Menander

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

~ Arthur Wellesley

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

~ Thomas Carlyle

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

~ W. C. Fields

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

~ Ty Burrell

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

~ Jilly Cooper

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

~ Arnold Bennett

I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.

~ Jacqueline Bisset

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

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.

~ Kenneth Grahame

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

~ Michel Houellebecq

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

~ Jennifer Ellison