Smart Quotes

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

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. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

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

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

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

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

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 wish you'd thought of.