A Quote by Edna Ferber

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
American - Novelist
August 15, 1885 - April 16, 1968

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

Kevin Kelly

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

Warren Christopher

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

E. W. Howe

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

Lou Reed

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

Annie Baker

If you look at any sitcom that you watch, if it takes place in, say, a small town in Massachusetts, and it's about the dynamics of the people in that town, the showrunner probably grew up in a town like that, witnessed things, and created content.

Erin Foster

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Gracie Allen

I grew up in a small town in Iowa, town of about 500 people.

Kim Reynolds

There is no room for play in Islam... It is deadly serious about everything.

Ruhollah Khomeini

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

Rachael Harris

I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.

Karyn Kusama

You could have all the money in the world, but you have to be smart enough knowing how to spend it. I really try to be on that smart money side. Once you make a serious mistake you can suffer five or six years, and I do my best to avoid serious mistakes.

Mikhail Prokhorov

I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.