Famous Quotes & Sayings

Celine Charveriat

What looks on the surface like a genuine attempt to move the talks forward is in fact a very clever piece of maneuvering by the U.S.,

Akio Morita

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Chip Esten

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

Chinua Achebe

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Charlaine Harris

You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me?" "I'm not that clever, Eric." "I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile.

Charlie Munger

Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.

Bess Truman

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

Cassandra Peterson

When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase.

Cassandra Peterson

When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

Ashleigh Brilliant

It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

Arthur Hiller

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

Bruce Nauman

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

Bill Wyman

It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

Alan Bennett

My films are about embarrassment.

Caitlin Moran

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

Arthur Hiller

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...

Brian Bosworth

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

Ricky Gervais

I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

Brent Weeks

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Elizabeth Bowen

nobody ever dies of an indignity.