Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Putin

After all, despite the scandalous behavior of one and, by the way, the other candidate [they are both , Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, scandalous in their own ways], they are smart, they are really smart and they are aware of the leverages they should use to make the voters in the United States understand them, feel them and hear them.

Yogi Berra

I guess I've got a smart wife.

Woody Hayes

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Will Rogers

... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.

Will Rogers

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

Warren Farrell

In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.

Zaha Hadid

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

Yvon Chouinard

I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I decided that this company is my best resource. Patagonia now exists to put into practice all the things that smart people are saying we have to do not only to save the planet but to save the economy.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

Wendell Berry

If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

Warren Beatty

I don't think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, 'Oh, look at that - look how smart I was' or 'What a brilliant shot that is!' I don't believe in that.

Warren Buffett

I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

Warren Buffett

You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it. The other reason is I never thought I would be way happier when I had 2X instead of X. You ought to have a good time all the time as you go along.

Warren Buffett

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

Warren Buffett

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

Warren Buffett

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Wendy Williams

When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'

Samuel L. Jackson

Michelle Obama is Superwoman. What can't she do? That's why people love her. She can be on the Supreme Court and anywhere else she wants. She can be the president. She's history and she'll stay history because she is so amazingly smart and together.

Salman Rushdie

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

Rudy Rucker

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

Wendy Liebman

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

Joss Whedon

There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

Joss Whedon

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

Kim Kardashian

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

Kim Kardashian

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

Kevin Kelly

Nobody is as smart as everybody.

Kevin Kelly

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

Katy Perry

Kids are so smart these days. They sense when there's a phony bologna out there. Especially in music, when they see something that's being marketed to them, they'll call it out. They'll be like, "This chick is bullshit."

Rainbow Rowell

It’s just … everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.

Lena Olin

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

Lenny Kravitz

I was watching an interview with Martin Scorcese concerning Raging Bull, which is one of my favorite films, and he was talking about how he'd worked with a lot of guys who weren't quote-unquote "actors," like Joe Pesce and Frank Vincent. Scorcese was very smart in the way that he cast, because you don't know where you're going to find the right person who can carry a role and summon that emotion you're looking for.

Thom Yorke

Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels

Theophilus London

When I was younger, I wasnt thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know thats not what the average person does, but Ive gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.