Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Peter Falk

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

Peter Fader

Retailers are treating everyone the same way who walks in their stores and this doesn't make sense in the world we live in where all customers are not equal.

Peter Fader

Charging everyone the same thing and treating everyone the same way, as retailers do today, is 'Six Sigma' thinking which is great for producing widgets on a production line, but it makes no sense in a world where customers are inherently different.

Peter Jacobson

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

Phyllis Diller

I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, What do you have in lingerie? She says, More than you'll ever have!

Queen Latifah

I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.

Queen Latifah

You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

Pixie Lott

I just like boys who are good-looking, really! I like people who are tall with a good sense of style. My faves are the indie look, the smart look or the surfer look.

Piper Perabo

I had seen Shawn Levy's movie just before, Just Married. And I think when I met him too, he's very smart and together and he's got it together.

Joss Whedon

There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

Joss Whedon

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

Kim Kardashian

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

Kim Kardashian

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

Kevin Kelly

Nobody is as smart as everybody.

Kevin Kelly

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

Katy Perry

Kids are so smart these days. They sense when there's a phony bologna out there. Especially in music, when they see something that's being marketed to them, they'll call it out. They'll be like, "This chick is bullshit."

Rainbow Rowell

It’s just … everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.

Lena Olin

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

Lenny Kravitz

I was watching an interview with Martin Scorcese concerning Raging Bull, which is one of my favorite films, and he was talking about how he'd worked with a lot of guys who weren't quote-unquote "actors," like Joe Pesce and Frank Vincent. Scorcese was very smart in the way that he cast, because you don't know where you're going to find the right person who can carry a role and summon that emotion you're looking for.

Thom Yorke

Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels

Theophilus London

When I was younger, I wasnt thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know thats not what the average person does, but Ive gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.

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.