Top 1200 Smart Kid Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay

This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner

The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.

Maybe I lose my fights because I don't fight smart.

It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

I think going public is a really smart thing to do.

The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.

We're gonna try to have the baby a little while before we name it. We don't want to put it out there, like try and turn him into something before we meet the kid. We want to get a feel for who this kid is before we name him.

I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.

Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

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

My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis.

My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.

I'm always conscious of the fact that a book starts, basically, with a kid in a lap, and a parent reading to them. If I'm not at least understanding that the parent's got to be there, and the kid's got to be there, together, then I don't feel like I'm doing my job. I hope that the language or the dialogue or the way characters interact entertains parents - when I'm playing with my own kids, I'm entertaining myself too, as well as them.

You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.

Before I had a kid, I was off in some kind of cosmic state all of the time, and thinking about the world beyond, thinking about intellectual stuff. And then, after I had a kid, just the whole process of giving birth is just so earthy and grounding and insane and it's all just an intense physical ordeal.

After a while, you're growing up so quickly and you begin to not know your parents anymore. You're left with the memories you had as a kid, but you're not a kid anymore and your experiences are separate. We are now much closer and communicate almost every day. It's a lot of work, but what holds us together is the hope that we will one day be together again.

Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

I actually had a lot of very smart peers.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

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

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

We’ve evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

I think I'm a little tougher than I am smart.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

What would I do if I were being guarded by Marcus Smart? There's not much you can do!

Barbara Feldon on 'Get Smart,' I wanted to be her.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. There's something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.

It doesn't pay to try, all the smart girls know why.

Society tells you that you can't be smart and sexy, and that's totally wrong.

This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the best, what I really hope for is that someday 20, 30 years from now, some kid, 12-year-old, 15-year-old, in Des Moines will be going through the stacks, if they have stacks anymore - they probably won't - and find a book of mine and get something from it.

When I say a girl like me, I bet you think I'm just talking about being fat. How dare you fat-shame me? You think I'm talking about being black? Racist. What makes you think I'm not talking about being smart? What? You don't think a fat, black girl can be smart or something? Fat-shaming racists like you make me sick.

Don't tell people you're smart; let them find out on their own.

Kirby Smart is one of the best defensive minds in college football.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

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

I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point

Hillary Clinton is incredibly prepared and smart on all of the issues.

Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

I liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every night. I'd listen to 'Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow... Right!' and 'Wonderfulness,' which are two of his most famous albums. Then the next night, I'd flip them over, 'cause it was the old stackable turntable.

Despite the insanity of using whether you would want to have a beer with someone as a legitimate reason for voting for or against them, I always felt that is indicative of a massive problem in politics: It matters as much what your personality is as how smart you are or how good you are at your job. That is a huge, huge problem. A lot of people who are very smart or very good at their jobs are not people I would want to ever have a beer with - but I would want them making massive policy decisions with huge implications for the future of the planet.

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

A Smart City cannot be imagined without proper recycling.

When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally. My mother had one particular Dumas book that was a family heirloom - this old, beat-up 1938 edition of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' in French. She came to America after losing her parents in World War II as a little kid.

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

I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.

Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.

I love playing a smart person and not that blonde deadpan.

Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

As I was a kid, I had a bunch of musicians, they always told me that I should listen to all styles of music and try to play all styles and be authentic at it, if I can, because you never know who's gonna call you. This was coming from fellow horn players who would get the call to play with different types of people. Since I was a kid, that was just something I was always interested in.