Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Rooney

I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

Andy Stanley

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Andy Warhol

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

Ann Richards

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

Ann Romney

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

Anne Carson

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

Anita Sarkeesian

Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.

Andrew Young

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

Andres Serrano

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

Chuck Palahniuk

We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

Chuck Palahniuk

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

Chuck Palahniuk

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

Christopher Nolan

Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.

Christopher Paolini

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

Christopher Meloni

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

Annie Proulx

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Amy Adams

I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things ... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.

Anna Gunn

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

Anna Held

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

Andrew Stanton

I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.

Alicia Keys

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

Anna Wintour

The Trump Card is appealing, grounded, smart, and has a sense of humor. Ivanka Trump proves that believing in yourself and working hard never go out of style.

Ani Difranco

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

Andy Hobsbawm

The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

Anthony Jeselnik

I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.

Ann Landers

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

Ann Coulter

We have way too many lawyers, the price for them has plummeted and you will have a miserable and unsatisfying life. Unless you get into Harvard Law. You could be in a yurt on the Mongolian Plateau and they'll say, "Oh you must be smart. You went to Harvard Law."

Ann Coulter

Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say to them: Get your slander straight. You are what you are, whether you're small or skinny or smart or dumb. Just do what you do.

Alyson Stoner

I like to take risks as long as they're healthy, you know. They're good, smart risks.

Kelly Clark

What we got was a very smart jacket.

Jami Attenberg

Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

Janine Benyus

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

Janet Napolitano

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.