Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Prokhorov

You could have all the money in the world, but you have to be smart enough knowing how to spend it. I really try to be on that smart money side. Once you make a serious mistake you can suffer five or six years, and I do my best to avoid serious mistakes.

Laura Marling

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

Laura Lippman

it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

Lisa Scottoline

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

Lisa Scottoline

The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.

Lisa Randall

Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

Lisa Randall

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

Lisa Kleypas

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

Lisa Kleypas

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

Johnny Depp

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

James Hunt

Our pre-kindergarten programs have shown a better work force and have attracted more businesses into the state. We implemented our Smart Start program in 1993. In my first two terms in the 1970s, we focused on elementary and high schools. We realized we were starting too late. We knew to be effective we had to start even earlier.

James Richardson

Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.

James Russell Lowell

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

James Purefoy

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

James Randi

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

James Redfield

We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can't know.

Laurence J. Peter

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Liev Schreiber

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

Liev Schreiber

Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

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'.

Harvey Mackay

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life.

Jacque Fresco

Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

Jacque Fresco

I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?

Jackson Katz

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Henry Rollins

Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?

Henry Rollins

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

Henry Rollins

I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

Henry Rollins

its no surprise to me that anyone hardly tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel so strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

Helmut Jahn

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

Hedda Hopper

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

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.