Smart Quotes
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Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.
Gerald Jay Sussman
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What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.
Asra Nomani
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In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.
Alex Pareene
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I may not be smart enough to debate you point-for-point on this, but I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap.
David Letterman
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What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.
Kevin Mitnick
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There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry.
Elizabeth Warren
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
Ned Vizzini
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
Aisha Tyler
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I like a girl who's smart, they have to be able to grasp witty sarcasm.
Eyedea
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My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart.
Lucas Till
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One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck - so it knows how much they make, and those workers can't cheat to any significant degree. But the other tax system is for capital. Those with capital get to tell the government what they want to tell. They may get audited, but if their tax returns are of any size the government doesn't have enough of the smart auditors to figure out what's really going on. And there are the rules that allow you to do things like take in money today and pay taxes on it thirty years from now.
David Cay Johnston
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Neeraj Pandey is a very smart director.
Disha Patani
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But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
Paul Krugman
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...it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.
Laura Lippman
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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I'm not as smart or talented as anyone around me. But they like me.
Amy Landecker
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I say if you're worried, vote smart. Vote smart.
Whoopi Goldberg
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I have surrounded myself with very smart people.
Dolly Parton
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Yeah, but our guys are too smart for that. We talk all the time about that and they understand it.
Joe Gibbs
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I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back ... I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face
Ned Vizzini
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Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams.
Charles McPhee
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Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.
Alexandra Daddario
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Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.
Seth Godin
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I am so secure in who I am. I really am! And I'm not conceited. I just think, 'Wow, okay, that's the life you want to live.' It wasn't about who he chose. I mean, I had moments, 'Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?' But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, 'No, don't start doing that.' Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.
Eva Longoria