Smart Quotes · Page 61

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

— Sara Paretsky

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

— Burt Rutan

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

— Michael Arditti

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

— Adolph Zukor

“Smart is not something you are... Smart is something you get!”

— Stephanie Harvey

Hillary Clinton is incredibly prepared and smart on all of the issues.

— Natalie Portman

In light of Jeb Bush's recent fumbles on Iraq , maybe the Clinton campaign is making the smart move here by not saying.

— Chris Matthews

Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're…

— Katie Cassidy

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make…

— Don Hertzfeldt

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as…

— Anna Kournikova

To realize the promise of 5G, we will need smart networks, not dumb pipes. Dumb pipes won't deliver smart cities. Dumb pipes…

— Ajit Pai

“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

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

— Fran Lebowitz

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants…

— Sarah Schulman

When there's so much freedom - financially and otherwise - smart kids get themselves into trouble. My parents did a good job…

— Ethan Peck

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off…

— Steve Wozniak

Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and…

— Jonathan Tropper

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had…

— Dolly Parton

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be…

— Sheri S. Tepper

People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on…

— Daniel Lyons

My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life.…

— George Lopez

I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones,…

— Liz Phair

You know, Hillary Clinton's out there saying, we need smart diplomacy. We need to do smart power. And that means empathizing with…

— Rush Limbaugh

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

— Danica McKellar

“The innocent trust their government, whereas the smart research their government to see if they are trustworthy.”

— Steven Magee

Know your limitation in all things and every action you do for no reason to regret at the end.

— Mitch Alapan

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

— Andy Warhol

I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, What do you have in lingerie? She says, More than you'll ever have!

— Phyllis Diller

When you play in the Champions League, you are switched on - very, very smart and focused on every situation.

— Claudio Ranieri

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

— Patricia Cornwell

I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.

— Bill de Blasio

Putting a climate change lens on policy making offers a huge opportunity to make smart decisions about India's future.

— Rohini Nilekani

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.

— Dylan Moran

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

— Clayton M. Christensen

I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

— Anonymous

“There's too much information out there. And not enough smart people.”

— Lori Lansens

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.

— David Foster Wallace