Smart Quotes

2304 Smart quotes by 1625 unique authors

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you… — Iain Banks
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If… — Warren Buffett
When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that… — Ellen Page
Once again I've been invited to the program WET. I gathered my thoughts and experiences and had the best time, these girls are so smart… — Unknown Author
We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence… — Hunter S. Thompson
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient… — Charles Stross
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend youâ€™re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys. — Patrick Ewing
When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I… — Patrick Ewing
You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues. — Unknown Author
I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics. — Michael Crichton
We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country. — Van Jones
I want the young people to pay attention because, see, back when I first met Barack, we started dating, he had everything going for him.… — Michelle Obama
We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens… — Mitch Daniels
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity -… — Kanye West
...protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind… — Liona Boyd
In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing… — Camille Paglia
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but… — Thomas More
Raptors are smart. Very smart. Believe me, all the problems we have so far are nothing compared with what we'd have if the raptors ever… — Robert Muldoon

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