I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
Lalla Ward

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.
Kevin Nealon

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Amy Tan

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
George Seaton

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
Brian Celio

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.
Jim Dale

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice Leconte

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.
Richard Perle

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.
Winston Churchill

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
William Whitelaw

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'.
Morris Hite

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst

It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
Gilbert Parker

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith