Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wally Lamb

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

Vitali Klitschko

Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.

Walter Dean Myers

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Walter Isaacson

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Walter Isaacson

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

Walter Isaacson

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

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.

Woody Allen

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

William J. Clinton

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

William J. Clinton

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

Whitey Herzog

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

Sarah Silverman

I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.

Sarah Silverman

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

Sarah Palin

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

Sarah Palin

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

Sara Gilbert

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

Whoopi Goldberg

I say if you're worried, vote smart. Vote smart.

Ronald Reagan

I'm not smart enough to lie

Ronald Reagan

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

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?

William Petersen

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...

William P. Young

religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

Zig Ziglar

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!