Smart Quotes - Page 16

• We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from the imagination as it does to real events.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Real, Animal, Imagination

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• No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Mistake, Kids

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, books.google.ru. May 31, 2011.

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• The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires]

  Steven Moffat

  Angel, Gun, Fire

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• Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind

  Elizabeth Sims

  Mind, Kind, Sandy

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• I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid.

  Paris Hilton

  Funny, Witty, Sorry

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• Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

  Plutarch

  Pain, Confusion, Soul

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• Get smart and nothing can touch you.

  S. E. Hinton

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.136, Penguin

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• Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Friendship, Reading, Thinking

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• Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

  Michael Crichton

  Twenties, Want, Knows

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Dark, Artist

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

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• Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Children, Curiosity, Behavior

  "Kingdom of Fear".

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• religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.

  William P. Young

  People, Brain, Answers

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• "You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing." "And yet I still can't program my DVD player," I said.

  James Patterson

  Player, Dvds, Brain

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". May 29, 2007, May 29, 2007.

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• a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

  Jodi Picoult

  Risk, Different, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Stupid, Fighting

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.30, Macmillan

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• What Strider thinks of himself "He was too intense, too jaded, too warped and too...everything for most women to take for long. But so what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Long, Intense

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.83, HQN Books

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• Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Book, Criticism, Sound

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.407, Macmillan

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• 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

  Party, Looks, Pretending

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• Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterwards, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Girl, Falling In Love, Sadness

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• I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Clever, Character, Average

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• Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

  Joseph Heller

  People, Mind, Catch 22 Important

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

  Maya Angelou

  Cute, Swear To God, Worry

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.55, Modern Library

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• So what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.

  Gena Showalter

  Enough, Made

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.83, HQN Books

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• Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.' ~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168

  John Green

  Hate, Air, Voice

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.125, Penguin

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• The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Strong, War, Self

  "Give War a Chance". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1992.

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