I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.
DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.