How Smart Quotes

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It doesnâ€™t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter. — Joan Clarke
No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available. — Daniel Dennett
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes. — Lyndon B. Johnson
This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how… — Kamasi Washington
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't… — Daniel Goleman
I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience. — Cameron Diaz
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them.… — Dave Eggers
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. — Richard P. Feynman
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… — Stephen King
I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny.… — Jerry Lewis
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all… — Ben Stein
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their… — Stephen Chbosky
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry,… — Mitch Albom
I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. Itâ€™s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our… — Sheri S. Tepper
It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one… — Chuck Palahniuk
It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You… — Elizabeth Berg
Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't.… — Nick Hornby
A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one… — Steven Brust
People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty. — Sandra Brown
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. — David Foster Wallace

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