Smart Quotes - Page 23

• Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut your mouth and open your ears." "I'm not the one talking." Kyrian snarled at him. "Don't get smart with me." "You want me stupid?" "Nick...

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Talking, Asking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.290, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble." "Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sweet, Sorry, Two

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• Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

  Lisa Kleypas

  College, Way, Teach

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?" She nodded. "Because someday you're going to grow into yourself, and you will be as beautiful as you already are smart.

  Julia Quinn

  Beautiful, Thinking, Want

  Julia Quinn (2007). “The secret diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever”

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• Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

  John Connolly

  Luck, Ran

  John Connolly (2012). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.

  Sandra Brown

  Gay, Long, People

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• If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up.

  David Brin

  Men, Thinking, Creative

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• [Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Cocky, Eye, Past

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• There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Two, Kind, Behinds

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• You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stupid, Needs, Chuck

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• We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.

  Veronica Roth

  Kindness, Struggle, Brave

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• [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Doe, Reader

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• So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest person to him, anyway. “And how are you this afternoon?” he asked. Lady Bridgerton gave him a very small smile as she handed him his cup of tea. “Smart man,” she murmured. “It’s self-preservation, really,” he said noncommittally. “Don’t say that. They wouldn’t hurt you.” “No, but I’m sure to be injured in the cross fire.

  Julia Quinn

  Hurt, Men, Fire

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• Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.

  Bill Watterson

  Believe, Brain, Genius

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Brave New World, Thinking

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• You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.

  Brooke Shields

  Nice

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• You’re strong enough to stand up to anyone. Smart enough to do anything you want. Don’t sell yourself short; don’t be afraid of what your new life is going to offer. Because I know—if there’s any justice in this world, good things are going to come to you. Better things than you ever dreamed.

  Claudia Gray

  Strong, Justice, New Life

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• Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

  Brenda Jackson

  Falling In Love, Men, Play

  Brenda Jackson (2015). “Brenda Jackson The Westmoreland Series Books 1-5: Delaney's Desert Sheikh\A Little Dare\Thorn's Challenge\Stone Cold Surrender\Riding The Storm”, p.45, Harlequin

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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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• You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

  Jimmy Buffett

  Noses, Thumbs, Sense Of Humor

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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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• I’m too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn’t even had his first date yet. He’d only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.’ – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kissing, Night, Should Have

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.8, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You have twenty-four hours, horseguy, to kill your betrayer any way you see fit and to take your revenge. Make them count. Oh, and know that you can’t let daylight touch you. If you do…Well, you don’t want to die without your soul. It’s highly unpleasant. Sometime in the next few days, a man named Acheron Parthenopaeus will find you and teach you everything you need to know about being a Dark-Hunter. If you’re smart, you’ll listen to him. Welcome to the madness.” – Artemis

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Revenge, Dark, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.13, 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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