Florence Pugh

I think everyone's always interested in playing a spy, right? That's something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it's just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.

English Actress

Israel Zangwill

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

English Novelist

Naguib Mahfouz

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Egyptian Novelist

Josh Thomas

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

Australian Comedian

Paul Arden

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?

American Author

Janet McTeer

I find strong roles really interesting. Usually, that means the character is also clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

French Writer

Sheila Hancock

I wish I could say I was wise and clever, but I'm really not.

Ricky Gervais

I think being nice is more important than being clever.

English Writer

Euripides

Greek Poet

Using 'clever' to describe someone usually suggests you admire their intelligence.

Positive Connotation

'Clever' doesn't just mean academically smart; it can describe practical intelligence too.

Not Always Studious

When used in planning contexts, 'clever' often implies strategic thinking.

Implying Strategy

Commending someone as 'clever' in this way often shows respect for their shrewdness.

Subtle Approval

In design, 'clever' highlights creativity and originality in problem-solving.

Innovation Emphasis

A 'clever' design is often elegant and simple, not necessarily complex.

Not Complicated

If a product is described as 'clever', it's usually user-friendly and convenient.

Appreciating Usability

Being 'clever' can mean playing with language amusingly or showing quick humor.

Humorous Intelligence

Using 'clever' here relates to being perceptive in social interaction, not just funny.

Social Skill

 And they've grasped basic arithmetic, keeping track of the relative amounts of fruit in two baskets after multiple changes. The rare combination of memory and problem solving can explain some of elephants' most clever behaviors, but it doesn't explain some of the things we're just beginning to learn

Why elephants never...

 for word the child plays with the ocelots and of course if you wanted to be clever you could take this suffix here that corresponds to the s in English and move it to the front of the word and after you've done that you will have created the most obnoxious way to speak the English language ever so

What does it take to...

 The answer begins with pregnancy. During this process, the body's resources are cleverly used to shape a suitable environment for a fetus, creating an internal haven for a mother to nurture her growing child. In this respect, pregnancy is awe-inspiring, but that's only half the story.

Why do women have...

 they were going to do and you could see this sort of behavior and how clever they were how strategic you know where they laid between waterholes they knew when and where the elephants were going to come of the trees and when they were going to drink but that

Filming Lions Hunting...

 In this instance, this knowledge allows us to design novel machine architectures or to design clever algorithms that gracefully handle damage, just like human athletes do, instead of building machines with redundancy. We can't help but hold our breath

The astounding athletic...

 cumulus, heap or pile, and stratus, layer or sheet. But that wasn't the clever part. Clouds are constantly changing, merging, rising, falling, and spreading throughout the atmosphere, rarely maintaining the same shapes for more than a few minutes.

How did clouds get their...

 that would otherwise be too heavy. This lever is one type of what we call simple machines, basic devices that reduce the amount of energy required for a task by cleverly applying the basic laws of physics. Let's take a look at how it works.

The mighty mathematics...

 own good yes we have split the atom yes we build clever machines that navigate the universe in search of new homes but at the same time those atoms we split created nuclear warfare in our quest to explore the galaxy rejects and neglects

His Epic Message Will...

 important the work of the center really he is so clever that he can communicate with rob using a new language system devised specially for orangutans let's start with an example from the vocabulary

Incredible Orangutan...

 but why would a small spider take to the skies well flying may be part of a clever strategy helping them to avoid competition start a new colony