#clever

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

#advertising #believe #buy #clever #commercial

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#clever #college #composing #enough #gone

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#more #patience #tenacity #than #their

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. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

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

— Brian Celio

#except #i #i write #my own #obviously

When push comes to shove, I’m going to figure out that this door needs to be pulled to be opened. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#door #figure #figure-out #funny #humor

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#boy #clever #form #head #i

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#clever #his #man #questions #tell