Smarts Quotes

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. (Henry Fielding)
Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting. View quote
Kobe Bryant
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. View quote
James Boswell
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 in smarts. View quote
Charles Stross
A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more. View quote
Philip K. Dick
And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people. View quote
Deb Caletti
It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. View quote
Maya Lin
Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I have this theory about smart people. If you're smart, you're either the only person in your family who's smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between.” I considered this. "I think I come from the everybody's smart category. But they don't apply their smarts to... larger picture pursuits. That includes me. (Douglas Coupland)
America's strength doesn't come from lashing out. Strength relies on smarts, judgment, cool resolve, and the precise and strategic application of power. View quote
Hillary Clinton
This is a competitive business - there are a lot of women who want these jobs, but experience, education, and smarts go a long way. I'm still figuring it out - I learn new things every day. Once you stop learning, you should get out of the business. It's just really about being hungry for more. View quote
Nicole Lapin
I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts. View quote
Alexandra Chando
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts. View quote
April Gornik
In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree. View quote
Caroline Paul
You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want. View quote
Danica McKellar
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. View quote
Gerrit Smith
There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts. View quote
J. B. Smoove
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him. View quote
J. B. Smoove
I look for fun and smarts - a witty, strong sexy woman. (Josh Dallas)
I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to. View quote
Rob Morrow
No creature smarts so little as a fool. View quote
Alexander Pope
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it. View quote
Sienna Miller
I have not the smarts or patience for political office. View quote
Henry Rollins