Smart Quotes - page 23

Bill Rogers has got - to his credit it's a decent feeling - but somewhat sort of a blind spot on the black thing because he's been in New York. He says well, ‘They are coming along, and that after all they are going to strengthen our country in the end because they are strong physically and some of them are smart.' So forth and so on. My own view is I think he's right if you're talking in terms of 500 years. What has to happen is they have to be, frankly, inbred. And, you just, that's the only thing that's going to do it, Rose. (Richard Nixon)
In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap-despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that ‘learned subservience. View quote
Warren Farrell
I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism. View quote
Pete Stark
None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle. View quote
Daniel Johns
Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
You're not as smart as you think you are, but you've got more potential than you could possibly imagine. The secret from the one to other is humility. View quote
Michael Hyatt
You're never as smart as you think you are when you are winning and never as dumb as you feel when you are losing. View quote
Michael Hyatt
My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions. View quote
Maria Semple
The perfect victim, from the sociopath's point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him some good in the world and who is also fun to manipulate. How much fun is it to manipulate someone who is stupid and incompetent? View quote
Martha Stout
To learn to be charming is fairly easy - you can teach somebody to be charming and to learn human emotions - or to learn the behaviors that go with human emotions. A sociopath, a smart one, will study the way we emote, and will learn how to do that quite effectively. (Martha Stout)
Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while. View quote
Meg Cabot
I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing. View quote
Mindy Kaling
My goal is always to make something unpredictable that feels inevitable in the end. It's getting harder to do that. Audiences are so sophisticated and so smart. View quote
Noah Hawley
and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show. View quote
Andy Cohen
Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life. View quote
Patricia Cornwell
In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case. View quote
Patricia Cornwell
There is a danger of building an identity around the idea of being smart because it is very easy to become off-putting, to become exclusionary. View quote
Randall Munroe
We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere. View quote
Regina Brett
The ability of businesses to monitor our behavior is already a fact of life, and it isn't going away. Of course we must protect our privacy rights. But if we're smart, we'll also use the data that is being collected to improve our own lives. (Richard Thaler)
My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers. View quote
Cecily von Ziegesar
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long. View quote
Steve Harvey
I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble." "Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad. View quote
Susan Elizabeth Phillips