Top 1200 Really Smart Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

I think I'm a fairly smart person.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth."

I guess I'm not very street smart.

Smart is, and has always been, sexy.

I think that "Gilmore Girls" did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that wasn't really being portrayed at all. The show made it cool to be a smart girl. That certainly wasn't happening at the time - you were surrounded by beauty shows and teen soap operas. "Gilmore Girls" felt very apart from everything else that was happening.

I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

There are two kinds of climbers... smart ones and dead ones.

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

I love working with smart-funny people.

You have to be a smart player as well as a hard worker.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

It's not smart to get caught without a gun.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.

You've got to be smart with what you have; it's not going to be there forever.

The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate

The kind of women I'm interested in - they're smart enough.

You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

Squirrel brains make you smart.

I like my smart-aleck self.

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

The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate.

Be smart, drink your wine.

you're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse.

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

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb everything, repackage it, bring it back to the person, and make them laugh at themselves. I can make people laugh during my talks because they didn't come to have me make them laugh. It's added value. So my job is way easier than that of a professional comic.

She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees.

If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

People want smart energy policy.

I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

I do consider myself to be a smart, tough girl.

You will never be as smart as your subconscious.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

Was it smart to be in a Nazi newspaper? I have no idea. Probably not.

Look, the American people are smart.

I want to make smart television.

I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey.As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you're going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won't be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are. So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

The world is full of smart, poor people.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

Them bats is smart. They use radar!

I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they are designed to create delight, wonder, joy, surprise. And what becomes really interesting is when innovative or challenging or smart people take it and use the easy runway that the form allows to take people to another planet, or another place. Or subvert it in some way.

I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I think, when people talk about nerdiness, what they're really talking about is smart people who who are trying to think hard about the world. And I don't think that's an insult, I think that's a great thing.

Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.