Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Marling

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

Laura Lippman

it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

Lisa Scottoline

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

Lisa Scottoline

The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.

Lisa Randall

Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

Lisa Randall

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

Lisa Kleypas

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

Lisa Kleypas

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

Johnny Depp

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

James Hunt

Our pre-kindergarten programs have shown a better work force and have attracted more businesses into the state. We implemented our Smart Start program in 1993. In my first two terms in the 1970s, we focused on elementary and high schools. We realized we were starting too late. We knew to be effective we had to start even earlier.

James Richardson

Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.

Marc Andreessen

Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are valuing things that have not yet happened, and the likelihood of the CEO and team being able to make them happen. Finance people find this appalling, but investors who do this well can make a lot of money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives.

Natalie Maines

I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.

Natalie Portman

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

Natalie Portman

By the physicality alone it was evident that we have one person [who] is incredibly smart, incredibly tough, and able to deal with him in a very, very calm and intelligent manner. And [Donald Trump] thought he was on The Jerry Springer Show.

Peter Drucker

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

Peter Drucker

In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

Peter Drucker

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

Penelope Mitchell

Personally, I know the lifestyle I lead is really busy. If I want to watch an entire series of something, it usually has to be in one weekend. I'll dedicate two days to it because it's not the kind of thing I can come back to, every night. I think this is a really smart format.

Penn Jillette

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

Marlon Wayans

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.

Marlon Wayans

I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.

Marissa Mayer

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

Marissa Mayer

It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.

Mariah Carey

True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.

Megan Fox

I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me. It makes me laugh because I've done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I'm not your typical music video model.

Max McKeown

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

Max Lucado

I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.

Matthew McConaughey

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Matthew Lillard

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

Matt Mullenweg

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.