#lever

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

I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other. ↗

— Neil Innes

#desperately #girl #go #guys #handle

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#clever #joke #noted #philistine #pleased

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

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

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

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. ↗

— Titus Livius

#clever #men #only #others #own

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. ↗

— James Lovelock

#host #inefficient #kills #stays #virus

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