Smart Quotes - Page 17

• You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)

  Rachel Caine

  Latin, Glasses, People

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.149, Penguin

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• Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Wise, Self, People

  "A Pirate Looks at Fifty". Book by Jimmy Buffett, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.

  Andy Andrews

  Teacher, Book, Kids

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.64, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.

  Neil Gaiman

  Soul, Unhappy, Alive

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• Once upon a time there was a girl." "Not a princess?!" "No, definitely not! She was too smart to be a princess. Tough too...Stronger than anyone realized." "Does she live happily ever after?" "Shouldn't there be something in the middle?" "I like to read the ending first." (Wicked Lovely)

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Princess, Once Upon A Time

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• Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy." Cat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Mountain, Bones

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• You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Kindness, Love Yourself, Cheer Up

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.212, Penguin

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• Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was the cadet officers; tomorrow it might be the world. Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. Such men were dangerous, and even the new cadet officers whom Clevinger had helped into office were eager to give damning testimony against him. The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.

  Joseph Heller

  Wise, Men, Yesterday

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

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• I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

  Randy Pausch

  Business, Team, People

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, "Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?

  Jim Butcher

  Phones, Wizards, Today

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.19, Penguin Group

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Dumb, Trying, Polished

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.159, Random House

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• 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.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Independent, Men, Nerves

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Crush, Children, Giving Up

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Cute, Mean, People

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Faith, Hurt, Pain

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• and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

  Sara Zarr

  Teacher, Heart, Mean

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• Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

  John Steinbeck

  Real, Nice, Guy

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.20, Hamilton Books

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• Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Nice, Dark, Caves

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.

  David Foster Wallace

  Book, Years, People

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• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  e. e. cummings

  Beautiful, Wise, Running

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• The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to persuade the audience and have the audience think you're smart and cool. And Socrates and Plato, basically their whole idea is, "Bullshit. There is such a thing as truth, and it's not all just how to say what you say so that you get a good job or get laid, or whatever it is people think they want.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Plato, Thinking

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• Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects." "Seven sacred sects," I repeated. "Say that three times fast." "How about I spank you instead?" asked Patrick in a benign tone that belied the flare of irritation in his gaze. "Only if you tie me to a bed and use a paddle." His silver eyes went molten. Uh-oh. Me and my big smart-aleck mouth. "I… uh, sorry. I didn't mean that. I saw Secretary a few too many times. I'm impressionable.

  Michele Bardsley

  Sorry, Mean, Eye

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.68, Penguin

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• It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk in the fridge to go sour; that everyday functional things will outlive us and prove that we weren't ready to go; that we weren't smart or knowing or heroic; that we were just animals whose animal bodies stopped working without any sort of schedule or any consent from us.

  Steven Hall

  Coffee, Animal, Knowing

  Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.

  Tom Clancy

  Confusion, Leaving, Mind

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