Smart Quotes

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.

I've always felt that kids are really smart.

I'll always remember Jean Paul Gaultier, who did a project based on Madonnas, remarking on the images, "Yours are much better." Gaultier is really smart, so it's good getting a compliment from him!

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.

When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

I'm glad I got a record contract, because all of a sudden everything you were doing before that made you a stupid person now makes you a smart person.

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.

He's a smart guy, but I think I'm a genius.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

I had seen Shawn Levy's movie just before, Just Married. And I think when I met him too, he's very smart and together and he's got it together.

My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

People that are really smart and that can learn new things can almost always find a role in the company as time goes on.

I want to make smart choices.

I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

You have to plan a lot and you have to be really smart about how you're spending your money.

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented.

I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

I love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

[Heihei] a really dumb rooster. You have to just turn the rooster so his head ends up hitting the grain. He's not smart enough to eat.

"Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.

The Miz can out brawl Randy Orton. Out wrestle him, out shine him, out smart him and out class him.

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That helps me be smart about it.