Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
I'm not clever. But I am level-headed, hard-working, dogged.
I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.
When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.
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.
Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly wanting to be thought clever and cultured: the clever, cultured people don't buy it, and the people don't want a clever, cultured ruler.
No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.