Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Luke Benward

I always remember loving Even Stevens - that show was so brilliant and funny and smart.

Lucas Till

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

Malcolm Forbes

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.

Malcolm Gladwell

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement—and If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

Malcolm Gladwell

It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.

Maira Kalman

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Gavin Rossdale

I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.

Gabrielle Union

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

Gabrielle Zevin

You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

Gabrielle Zevin

I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

Fred Tomaselli

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

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.

Jim Rohn

None of us is smarter than all of us.

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.

Elvis Presley

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

Ellen Hopkins

Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.

Elizabeth Gaskell

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

Jimmy Fallon

Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.

Jimmy Fallon

There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.

Joel Silver

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

Joe Arpaio

You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.