Smart Quotes · Page 44

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

— Carl Sagan

It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

— Walter O'Brien

A great shot is when you pull it off. A smart shot is when you don't have the guts to try it.

— Phil Mickelson

If you talk to my former coaches, they'll tell you that I'm really smart on the football field.

— Tavon Austin

I want to be somebody that is known as a smart manager that makes solid decisions, that is prepared.

— Aaron Boone

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

— George Matthew Adams

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

— John C. Maxwell

Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader,…

— Judith Viorst

I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the…

— Matt Mullenweg

I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a…

— Laura Benanti

You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play…

— Heather Mitts

I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name…

— Charles Dickens

It's certainly a difficult time right now to try to make small, smart films. I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you…

— Terry Zwigoff

Loved 'Get Out,' super good from start to finish. I mean, it had everything you'd want in a movie. It was funny,…

— Perfume Genius

In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your…

— Sarah Cooper

It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on…

— Jim Butcher

The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties…

— Charlie Kaufman

My mama is my best friend. We have fun, we can talk about anything, she always is on my side but really…

— Reba McEntire

I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I…

— Denis Leary

Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Desperation precludes reflection. That is one of the reasons why smart people can get involved in very obviously unworkable relationships. Like addiction,…

— Melissa Febos

I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough.…

— Will Smith

Truly smart people and truly smart dressers share one thing in common: They make it look easy.

— Rumaan Alam

“I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough - just smart enough to have problems.”

— Ned Vizzini

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

— Jeff Kinney

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you…

— Daniel H. Wilson

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

— Boyan Slat

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

— Juliana Hatfield

In order to get a loan, you first need to prove that you don't need it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

No matter how smart you are, the matters of the heart will always make you dumb.

— Ritu Ghatourey

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

— Confucius

A lot of really smart, wealthy people know that [slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.]

— Donald Trump

A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.

— Laurence Fishburne

In the '80s, to get a contemporary Scot who was smart, sexy and funny was very unusual.

— Denis Lawson

Smart leaders believe only half of what they hear. Discerning leaders know which have to believe.

— John C. Maxwell

No one is smart. We just have different levels of stupidity.

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Salman Rushdie

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

— Bob Monkhouse