Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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

Meredith Vieira

I eat smart - I do think that's the sort of thing that will eventually show up in the condition of your skin, your hair, and your nails, and your own feeling about yourself.

Merle Haggard

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

Masashi Kishimoto

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

Mary Karr

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

Mary Karr

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

Marvin Minsky

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

Marvin Minsky

Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.

Michael Grant

Smart stupid. Stupid smart.

Michelle Williams

For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.

Michel Hazanavicius

I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.

Michael J. Saylor

Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.

Michael J. Fox

When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.

Martie Maguire

The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree

Mark Cuban

If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

Mark Zuckerberg

It took 10 years to go from building the initial Smartphone to reaching the mass market. BlackBerry came out in 2003 and it didn't get to about a billion units until 2013. So I can't imagine it would be much faster for VR.

Mark Zuckerberg

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

Terrell Owens

I'm smart enough to know when I've done something wrong, but I don't understand this. Guys are beating their wives, getting DUIs and doing drugs, and I get national attention for a Sharpie? People are personally attacking me, calling me a classless asshole because I did something creative during a game. Why?

Ted Turner

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

Malcolm Turnbull

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

Malcolm Turnbull

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

John C. Maxwell

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

Jack Welch

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

Harvey Fierstein

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

Harvey Mackay

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.