Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Krasinski

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

Barry Diller

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

Charlaine Harris

If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest.

Carl Sagan

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Mark Turgeon

You look at the stats and you'll wonder how we were even in the game. They're just really smart defensively.

Eoin Colfer

I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

Aaron McGruder

Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

Aaron Allston

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

Adrianne Palicki

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

Adrian Rogers

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

Adam Osborne

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

Adam Levine

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

Dana Spiotta

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

Dave Hickey

Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.

Dave Eggers

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

Dave Eggers

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

David Limbaugh

Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history by insisting on separating financial efforts from rewards and pretending this can bring prosperity.

David Levithan

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

David Levithan

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

David Letterman

I'm a wiseass and a smartass, and I always have been.

David Letterman

Them bats is smart. They use radar!

David E. Kelley

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

Dave Grohl

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

Danica McKellar

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

Danica McKellar

You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.

Danica McKellar

If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.

Connie Nielsen

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

Meryl Streep

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Clarence Thomas

I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.

Colin Chapman

Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.

Dan Quayle

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Clifford Stoll

The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.

Conan O'Brien

Texas Governor Rick Perry distanced himself from George W. Bush by saying, 'I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.' In other words, his idea of instilling confidence is by saying, 'Don't worry. I'm not as smart as George W. Bush.'