Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Joan Jett

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

Jim McCrery

We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart.

Eric Liu

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

Emma Stone

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

John Hodgman

Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

John H. Johnson

Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

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

He was smart little guy. He was pretty mischievous too. You can see that in his pictures. You can see the sparkle in his eye.

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

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

A lot more are being smart with their money.

John Franklin

A lot of women are smart and capable. We have to give them opportunities so that they know they can succeed. It's about self-esteem. It's important for women to be confident.

Steve Clarke

You're smart enough to know if there's another one you're in all sorts of bother.

Marty Hurney

You're never as smart as they say you are and you're never as dumb, either.

You're a smarter shopper when you go into the store with $30 in your pocket.

It's just one more thing to worry about, I guess. You just try to be smart about where you're going.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.

Gerard Butler

Sometimes along the way in my life I don't want a smart woman right now, I want a dumb woman. But then you think, 'That doesn't work, now I want a smart woman.' Then you get a smart woman and you go, 'No, that doesn't work.' So it's just killing me right now.

Georges St-Pierre

Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.

Esther Hicks

Just because we are dead does not make us smart.

Ernest Hemingway

No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

Erwin Rommel

Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

Florence Nightingale

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Flannery O'Connor

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

Henry Mintzberg

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.

Henry Mintzberg

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

Gina McCarthy

Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.

Harvey Weinstein

There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.

Harold Ramis

I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know.

James Daly

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

James Brolin

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

James Brown

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.