Smart Quotes

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.

The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

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.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It's all about training smart.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

I want to make smart television.

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

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

I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.

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.

His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.

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.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

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

This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

You need to be smart about what you put in your body.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

When I'm not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

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.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I've been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper - something a little stronger.

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

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.

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

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.