Smart Quotes · Page 69

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If you're dumb enough to make me talk I'm smart enough to speak.

— Susan Messing

We are doing politics differently - smart, populist, political movement.

— Maxime Bernier

Trevor Noah is a great, relevant young comic, and Comedy Central is smart to stand by him.

— Jim Norton

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.

— Barack Obama

You can lose leverage, and it's the only way a smart guy can go broke.

— Warren Buffett

Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

— Jacob Batalon

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they…

— Tamora Pierce

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as anybody else.…

— Dinah Katt

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition…

— Rem Koolhaas

I do think I retired too soon. I just felt at that particular time in 2002, after winning a fifth world title…

— Naseem Hamed

The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he…

— William Shakespeare

Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids - not because it's genetic but because they can create a home environment…

— George Kaiser

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied…

— Warren Buffett

If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,…

— Robert Hass

One lesson I learned the hard way, early in my career, was that if I tried to write to be smart or…

— George Saunders

It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young…

— John Dos Passos

We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I…

— Stephen Fry

Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current…

— Muhammad Yunus

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find…

— Randall Munroe

When you have success on the field, you're more popular and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're…

— Aaron Rodgers

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

— John Gielgud

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

— Julia Roberts

Keenser is a smart alien. I try to bring a little bit of comedy into it, but he's a great thinker.

— Deep Roy

Smart people don't carry the weight of the world on their shoulders.

— Kishore Bansal

Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.

— Betty Hill

If you get into a fight, don't take your helmet off. We're looking for smart football players, not dumb ones.

— Mike Leach

Chris Jericho know Iron Sheik the legend. He know if he get smart with me, I break his back.

— The Iron Sheik

In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

— Peter Drucker

I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

— Mitski

When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show…

— Wendy Williams

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

— Ronald Reagan

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

— Carl Sagan

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or…

— David Mitchell

Nothing is perfect in this world if u r ugly u r smart,and if u r smart u r ugly

— Anonymous

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

— Jack Prelutsky

Anytime someone is screaming in public, it's political, or whatever. I don't know a smart way to phrase that.

— Sarah Sherman