Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Jett

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

Jim McCrery

We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart.

Eric Liu

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

Emma Stone

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

John Hodgman

Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

John H. Johnson

Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

John French Sloan

You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.

John F. Kerry

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.

John Dos Passos

It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.

Leo Burnett

I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything,

Lawrence Schiller

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

Larry King

Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.

Lady Gaga

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

Levon Helm

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

Lewis Hamilton

That's the great thing about today, having smartphones to stay in touch and share experiences. Knowing that whilst there may be thousands of miles between you, it's almost like they're there. That's the coolest thing, and that's how I stay in touch with the people that are important to me.

Joseph Heller

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

Karl Rove

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

Karen Horney

If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.

Julie Gold

I'm an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.

Jules Asner

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

Josh Billings

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

Justin Chatwin

I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's really important that's a problem, like alcoholism and bad parenting. It's done in a funny, smart way.

Lauren Bacall

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

L. J. Smith

Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.

Kyra Sedgwick

I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.

John Kasich

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

Linwood Barclay

Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

Linus Pauling

I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.

Linus Torvalds

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

Lili Taylor

I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.

Gary Coleman

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.