Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ned Vizzini

I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.

Mark E. Smith

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

Niklas Zennstrom

Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.

Nicole Polizzi

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

Mike Huckabee

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Paul Walker

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

Philip Greenspun

When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java project wont be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages.

John Perry

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

Martin McDonagh

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

Nan Hayworth

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

Misty May-Treanor

If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you'll still see the pounds come off.

Philip Roth

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Peter Diamandis

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions all good things

James Russell Lowell

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

James Purefoy

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

James Randi

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

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

James Redfield

We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can't know.

Laurence J. Peter

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

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.

Malcolm Turnbull

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

Malcolm Turnbull

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

John C. Maxwell

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

Jack Welch

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.