The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

If you were smart,” Genghis said, “you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends.””We never thought of that,” Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a...

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

People always knock what’s new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We’re living in it.

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

Portia followed after, a smirk on her face, and Syc hissed as he passed.Donegan waited till they were gone, then swung round to Gracious.”He hissed at me.””He hissed at you.””Should I hiss back?””It’s a bit...

Clever, but not grotesque,

Once there was an elephant,Who tried to use the telephant-No! no! I mean an elephoneHe tried to use the telephone-(Dear me! I am not certain quiteThat even now I’ve got it right.)Howe’er it was, he...

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work,

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

As I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I’ll steal the light of day away to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

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

Alzheimer’s is the cleverest thief, because she not only steals from you, but she steals the very thing you need to remember what’s been stolen.

The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition)1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It is the number two reason people leave the faith. The first is pride.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

There Are Two Typos Of People In This World: Those Who Can Edit And Those Who Can’t

You write poetry?” Klaus asked.He had read a lot about poets but had never met one.”Just a little bit,” Isadora said modestly. “I write poems down in this notebook. It’s an interest of mine.””Sappho!” Sunny...

Graham’s life is as tense as an overstretched simile.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don’t laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

People tell me I look like my father. I’ve never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible?

Desperation is the father of ingenuity.

Education …it is a worldwide concept which lead to creation of MANY educated people but FEW intellectuals.

T.V. – If Kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty six.

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could roll like thunder or hush down into a zepherlike whisper. He could imitate...

I had a dream about you. We were standing next to each other, and a stranger asked for the time. My watch said 3:32, and yours said 3:33. I got concerned because somewhere I’d lost...

I don’t kind of like to be kind and like you—I love to be kind and love you.

A wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.