Be Smart Quotes

I hate to be smart.
- Paulo Coelho

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- Alan Alda

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
- Aaron Allston

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.
- John Aniston

Those boys got a way about 'em, Jules. They don't fuck around. They see somethin' they want, they get it. They're fuckin' famous for it. A woman don't stand a chance. He seem interested?"
"...honestly, there's nothing to worry about. We went our separate ways. I'll be smarter, I'll be more quiet, I'll be --"
"Laid, good and simple. Crowe got a look at you, you're his.
- Kristen Ashley

I did the right thing, right? (Dante)
No. The panther woman didn't want you to leave her and now you made her go away. That was just stupid if you ask the Simi. Not that anyone ever does, 'cause if they did, then they would be smart. Some people are smart. But many, like you, are too stupid to ask me what I think. See? (Simi)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.
- Charles Baxter

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
- Desmond Tutu

If you think you're smart,
think twice to be smarter.
- Toba Beta

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
- Joe Biden

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
- Robert Kiyosaki

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H Jackson Brown Jr

If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be smarter, read them MORE fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.
- Lizzy Caplan

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.
- Tia Carrere

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
- Ally Carter

I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.
- Erika Christensen

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
- Terry Pratchett

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.
- Elvis Presley

In the cafe there was a lot of stylized cattiness, but this was never unkindly meant. Nothing at all was meant by it. It was a formal game of innuendos about other people being older than they said, about their teeth being false and their hair being a wig. Such conversation was thought to be smart and so very feminine. It was better, I need hardly say, to seem like a truly appalling woman than not like a woman at all.
- Quentin Crisp

By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
- Santosh Kalwar

I won't lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who's had youyou'd be smart to keep them the hell away from mebut nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.
- Sylvia Day

No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
- Ellen Degeneres

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.
- John Green

Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
- John Green

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
- John Green

There are always
answers. We just have to be smart enough.
- John Green

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
- John Green

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.
- Courtney Thorne Smith

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.
- Sheena Easton

There was in the mountains, and perhaps in the world at large, a theory of compensation that held that for everything given something else was immediately and visibly lost. "Well, you've got the smarts even if your cousin did get the looks." Compliments, seductive as flowers, thorny with their opposites: "Yes, you may be smart but you sure are ugly; You may look nice but you didn't get a brain." Compensation; balance in the universe.
- Kim Edwards

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
- Garrison Keillor

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.
- Craig Ferguson

But Adrian, sometimes it's nice to let her be smart too.
- Alex Flinn

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most, and if you ever lost your good looks, i bet you wouldn't be smart enough to get them back. Kyle Kingsbury, you are beastly.
- Alex Flinn

Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.
- James Frey

Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.
- Neil Gaiman

Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.
- Jack Gantos

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.
- Nadia Giosia

You're a gift, one I'll always treasure. You're a dream I never want to wake up from. You open my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me. Be safe. Be smart. Stay you.
- Ellen Hopkins

Maybe one did have to be smart in order to kill.
- Markelle Grabo

He ... loves her. Well, he's crushing on her anyway."
I didn't know the term but I understood its meaning well enough. I sighed. "I thought she'd be smarter."
He raised his eyebrows. "She's plenty smart." He looked thoughtful. "You don't believe in love then?"
"No." I wanted to look away, couldn't. "I don't know.
- Alyxandra Harvey

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
- Mitch Hedberg

Be Greatful. Be Smart. be Clean. Be True. Be Humble. Be Prayful
- Gordon B Hinckley

Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.
- Gordon B Hinckley

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable... it's your choice
- Gordon B Hinckley

Mrs. Dale was a good woman, Hollis will grant her that. A busybody and a pain in the neck, but she never judged what she didn't understand and that Hollis knows, is rare. Unlike Alan and the boys in the village, she treated him fairly, but that doesn't mean he has to moan and bellyache down at the funeral parlor. Ashes to ashes, that's all there is. If you can't change a fact of life, then be smart enough to walk away from it.
- Alice Hoffman

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
- Judy Holliday

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
- Lena Horne

I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.
- Geoff Johns

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it..
- Megan Johns

I don't know much, but this is what I've learned. You'll fall for the last person you ever thought you'd be interested in. That's the tricky part. You might not even notice her at first. And she usually comes around just when you've stopped looking. But if you pay attention, you'll know it's her because she'll stand out from everybody else. She might even scare you. But if you're lucky enough to meet this girl, be smart enough to realize it and try not to screw it up.
- Katie Kacvinsky

...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.
- Daniel Keyes

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
- Markus Zusak

The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.
- Rasmus Lerdorf

You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.
- Adeline Yen Mah

If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.
- Bruno Mars

Be smart, but never show it.
- Louis B Mayer

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
- Eugene Mccarthy

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
- Danica Mckellar

If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
- Danica Mckellar

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
- Marvin Minsky

I scowled and stabbed begrudginly at the stack before scooping up a bite with my fork, but it toppled over and plopped into my lap. I groaned and banged my head on the counter.
Mom frowned, 'You have to be smarter than the pancakes, Ellie.
- Courtney Allison Moulton

Everybody can be smart.
- Jose Mourinho

The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.
- Keith Olbermann

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.
- Michael Ondaatje

Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.
- Michael Ondaatje

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
- Matthew Perry

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
- Natalie Portman

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
- Steven Pressfield

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
- Karl Rove

It's full of phonies and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a golden Cadillac..
- J D Salinger

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
- J D Salinger

This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the "over" and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.
- Sarah Strohmeyer

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.
- Alisa Valdes Rodriguez

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
- Emily Watson

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.
- Lizz Winstead

I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.
- Catherine Zetajones

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
- Catherine Zetajones

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