Smart Quotes

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it.

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them.

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

My career has been a slow burn, so waiting to do the Edinburgh Festival was a smart move. If I'd spent a month there 10-15 years ago, there's no way anyone was gonna remember me.

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!

Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.

Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing...

You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.

Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

Holly McGhee said I should come to dinner with them. That first dinner, I said something pretty smart-alecky, and Alison [McGhee] laughed really hard at it. It made me happy.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly?