Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liev Schreiber

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

Liev Schreiber

Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

George Friedman

Politicians are enormously smart and rational. They don't have the same interests as businessmen ... But a man rises to the top of the United States. He's clawed his way out of 330 million people. OK. He didn't do that because he was dumb, or lucky, or something like that. He understands power. And he understands how to take it. And he understands how to keep it.

George Gilder

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

Jon Ronson

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

Jon Heder

I've always liked Kate Winslet. She's pretty, smart, and talented.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

John Connolly

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

Paula Creamer

I just have to keep working hard.

Peter Thiel

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

Les Miles

I think all of our guys work hard and want to improve. They want answers, and the film will be the answer. The coaches will collect it and get better. I do not think anybody wants a rebuilding year. That's not something that I have ever said.

Lara Flynn Boyle

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

Larry Bird

When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

L. Ron Hubbard

That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe. That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.

Thierry Henry

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

Terry Tempest Williams

When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come to pass. And that's only going to happen if people support the leadership, because the same power structures are still in place, and it's not in their best interests to change.

Leo Rosten

Thinking is harder work than hard work.

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Thomas Haden Church

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Vernor Vinge

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Vanna Bonta

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Susie Bright

Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

Suzanne Collins

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

Suzanne Collins

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

Taryn Simon

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

Sophie Kinsella

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.