Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Coleman

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

Jose Mourinho

Everybody can be smart.

Jordyn Wieber

Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

Joni Mitchell

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can

Jonathan Safran Foer

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

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

Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

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.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.

Norman Mailer

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He’s a smart boy

Ellen Gustafson

Maybe we need to re-engage our smart, energetic youth around the world to be farmers and find fresh, green technologies that will feed the world more fresh greens.

Eric S. Raymond

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Eric Ries

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

Eric Allin Cornell

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

Emeli Sande

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

Heidi Julavits

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to understand that they really think that they're right, and they're looking at me like I'm crazy.

Helena Rubinstein

Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

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.