Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jody Watley

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

Jimmy Buffett

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

Jim Rash

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

Jim Palmer

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

Jim Rohn

None of us is smarter than all of us.

George Matthew Adams

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

George Lopez

My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn't going to get her anywhere and it didn't. I wasn't even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn't good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what's good in our lives, we will be all right.

Elvis Presley

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

Ellen Hopkins

Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.

Elizabeth Gaskell

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

Elizabeth Gilbert

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

Katharine Weymouth

I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and you want Dan Balz to tell you what is he reading, what does he think are the smartest articles today on the elections or the primaries. So, I think aggregation is great ... . So I'm all for aggregation. And the more eyeballs we can get to our content, the better. We do want readers to be educated and to understand the difference between, what is a source that you can trust as opposed to just rumors out there. And the difference between just repurposing content and not crediting it.

Katharine Whitehorn

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

Katharine Hepburn

Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.

Katharine Hepburn

You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

Justin Chatwin

I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's really important that's a problem, like alcoholism and bad parenting. It's done in a funny, smart way.

Lauren Bacall

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.

L. J. Smith

Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.

Kyra Sedgwick

I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.

John Kasich

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

Gary Coleman

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

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

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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.