Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Patterson

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

James May

The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to be able to handle that kind of demand.

James Marsters

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.

Emeli Sande

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

Ellen Page

I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I've been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper - something a little stronger.

Heidi Julavits

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to understand that they really think that they're right, and they're looking at me like I'm crazy.

Helena Rubinstein

Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

John Krasinski

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Haruki Murakami

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

John Mayer

I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.

John Malkovich

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

John Lasseter

I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

John Baldessari

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

Jody Watley

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

Jimmy Buffett

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

Jim Rash

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

Jim Palmer

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

George Matthew Adams

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

George Lopez

My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn't going to get her anywhere and it didn't. I wasn't even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn't good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what's good in our lives, we will be all right.

It's just one more thing to worry about, I guess. You just try to be smart about where you're going.

A lot more are being smart with their money.

John Franklin

A lot of women are smart and capable. We have to give them opportunities so that they know they can succeed. It's about self-esteem. It's important for women to be confident.

They have money, and they want to fly. They want low-cost but something that is smart and socially acceptable.

David Brooks

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

David Sedaris

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

David Sedaris

Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.

David Mitchell

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

David Mitchell

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.

David Crosby

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

Carl Sagan

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Charles Stross

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.