Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Hiaasen

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

Smart enforcement I think is what is going to get us there; and utilization of the tools that MSHA already has.

Andy Reid

In hindsight, ... I didn't look very smart on that one.

Newt Gingrich

I'm not at all sure you can get to that this year and I'm not at all sure that it's a smart idea to try to get to that this year,

I know they feel they can play with those teams, and I think they really feel like they can win them. We just have to be smarter at the end.

Don Bluth

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.

Djimon Hounsou

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

Donald Luskin

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

Dwayne Johnson

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

Jack Kornfield

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

Ingrid Newkirk

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Jack Ma

You've to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn't sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.

Jack Nicklaus

Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.

J. Cole

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

J. B. Smoove

There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

Guy Maddin

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

Guy Kawasaki

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Guy Kawasaki

Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth."

Greg Giraldo

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

Gracie Allen

Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time-and millions are doing nothing because it's the best offer they've had this week. ... It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren't quite so smart.

Harry Crews

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Gary Williams

He's smart enough to be like a one-man zone.

David Thomas

He's smart and savvy. I thought he was one of the governor's better appointments.

He's just a fast, shifty, smart runner. He has three things going for him.

Chris Cooper

I don't know if we've ever been this inexperienced. We're going to have to be a team that executes well and manufactures runs, and play smart baseball.

Scott Anderson

I'm happy. I think it was a smart decision.

Eric Lindros

I know it's smart to wear a visor. I just don't like it. I can't see out of them.

But, he was smart enough to get out of there,

Emotionally, that's going to be tough to do, ... But it's the smart thing to do.

We're going to try to be smarter with the ball.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.

Robert Kiyosaki

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.