#lever

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

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#clever #doing #enjoy #fun #i

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#answering #asking #bewilderment #chief #clever

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

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#leverage #lot #you #young

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

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #good #good thing #history

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. ↗

— Bob Filner

#beijing #chinese #chinese government #coming #cross

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#healthy #idea #illness #making #man