Smart As Quotes

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

Smart as a whip, kinky enough to own one.
- R G Alexander

To celebrate our partnership I dressed up like Ranger. Black boots, black jeans, black turtleneck, small silver hoop earrings.
He gave me the once-over when I opened the door to him.
'Smart ass,' he said.
- Janet Evanovich

You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming.
- Melina Marchetta

Gee, thanks Dad. I promise to be a good boy and play nice with the other kids.(Kyrian)
Smart ass.(Julian)
Better than a dumb ass.(Kyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Non of us is as smart as all of us
- Kenneth H Blanchard

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

None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Phil Condit

Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!
- Rick Riordan

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.
- David Clennon

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.
- Maureen Dowd

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.
- Patrick Ewing

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.
- Patrick Ewing

Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
- Ellen Hopkins

I often wonder what Einstein would have done in my position. At Peterson, I kept an Einstein poster in my room, the one that says 'Imagination is more important than knowledge.' Einstein was smart, maybe even as smart as Laserator, but he played it way too safe. Then again, nobody ever threw a grappling hook at Einstein. I like to think he would have enjoyed my work, if he could have seen it. But no one sees anything I do, not until it's hovering over Chicago.
- Austin Grossman

It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light
- Manu Joseph

Perceptive. She's as smart as she is beautiful. And probably doesn't think she's either one.
- M Leighton

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.
- Andrew Mason

I wish I were half as smart as I think I am.
- Jeffrey Michael

I've been called a smart ass many times and given the same response I'd rather be known as a smart ass than a dumb ass
- Jeffrey Michael

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
- Vera Nazarian

Remember to be as smart as you are.
- Judd Nelson

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.
- Michael Ondaatje

Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on his skinny hip.
"No, sir," David said. "But thank you for asking." The students around them laughed, but Mr. james didn't look pleased. Laurel leaned back and grinned. David, one. Teacher who wishes he was as smart as David? Zero
- Aprilynne Pike

And I've got this"- I pulled out the signum and held it out for him to see-"that says I am kindred.And I've got this"-I pointed at my head-"that says I am as smart as you.And I have this"-I held up my middle finger-"that says go to hell, you immortal bigot.
- Amy Plum

Booth: "You're a smart ass, you know that?"
Brennan: "Objectively I'd say I'm very smart, although it has nothing to do with my ass.
- Kathy Reichs

Can I ask you a question? Ya just did.
Can I ask you 2 questions then?
Ya just did.
Ohh, so you're a smart ass
- Maggie Stiefvater

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
- Rudy Rucker

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

Trella! You're here," he said with glee.
"Even though I'm not as smart as you, I do know where I am.
- Maria V Snyder

Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.
- Neal Stephenson

I deal with people like him a hundred times a day. They look at me and naturally assume I'm not as smart as they are. God help us. But think about it, it's a tremendous tactical advantage, not to mention personally liberating, to haveothers think I'm a dummy.
- Francisco X Stork

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
- E B White

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
- Don Van Vliet