Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Lewis

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

Jerry Lawler

If the Japanese are so smart, why do they eat with sticks?

Jeff Bezos

You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.

George Bernard Shaw

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

Gemma Chan

At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.

Gena Showalter

What Strider thinks of himself "He was too intense, too jaded, too warped and too...everything for most women to take for long. But so what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.

Gena Showalter

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

Gena Showalter

So what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.

Gena Showalter

He reclined on a delightfully cushioned lounge in the sprawling ranch Paris had rented. In Dallas, Texas, of all places. Promiscuity had decked himself out, too, wearing a Stetson (weird), no shirt (understandable), unfastened jeans (smart) and cowboy boots (weird again). Dude looked ready to rustle cattle or something.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

Eminem

..be smart, don't be a retard.

Eminem

I'm not really book-smart.

Eminem

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Elon Musk

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

Elon Musk

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

Elon Musk

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

But, he was smart enough to get out of there,

Guy Maddin

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

Guy Kawasaki

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Guy Kawasaki

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."

Greg Giraldo

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

Gracie Allen

Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time-and millions are doing nothing because it's the best offer they've had this week. ... It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren't quite so smart.

Harry Crews

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Gary Williams

He's smart enough to be like a one-man zone.

David Thomas

He's smart and savvy. I thought he was one of the governor's better appointments.

He's just a fast, shifty, smart runner. He has three things going for him.

Chris Cooper

I don't know if we've ever been this inexperienced. We're going to have to be a team that executes well and manufactures runs, and play smart baseball.

Jack Kornfield

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

Ingrid Newkirk

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Jack Ma

You've to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn't sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.

Jack Nicklaus

Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.

Bill Simon

If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.

Carrie Fisher

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.