Famous Quotes & Sayings

Curtis Jackson

You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.

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.

Anthony LaPaglia

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

Anna Quindlen

You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. I don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating.

Cindy Sherman

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

Chuck Palahniuk

I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.

Alfie Kohn

What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis (1) undermines students' interest in learning, (2) makes failure seem overwhelming, (3) leads students to avoid challenging themselves, (4) reduces the quality of learning, and (5) invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.

Alexis Herman

Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.

Andy Rooney

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

Andy Rooney

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.

Andy Rooney

I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

Andy Stanley

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Andy Warhol

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

Kelly Clark

What we got was a very smart jacket.

Bill Belichick

He's a big target to throw to. He's a smart player. He understands coverages.

David Daniels

He's got to be smarter with his pitches.

Larry Sabato

I think it's a smart thing to do.

Lance is one of the smartest wrestlers I've ever had.

Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.

He wasn't overpowering like he usually is. He wasn't throwing as hard, but he pitched a smart game.

I think we were lucky. We didn't play very smart rugby.

I think it was a smart move, but not something we would do.

Jim Bush

He worked from 8:30 to 5 p.m., ... Some of us weren't so smart and stayed till 10.

Mike Mularkey

He doesn't need the work tonight. I'm just being smart about it.