Smart Quotes - Page 25

• 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

  Dream, Hate, Mean

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.229, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, Lazy, Intellectual

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• Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how smart he is and that if I’m not careful he’ll notice that I keep staring at her, and that will be my undoing.

  Veronica Roth

  Trying, Eric, Instinct

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Free Four - Tobias tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• I have to admit that Christina is good—though I don’t like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths—and so is Peter—though I don’t like giving credit to future psychopaths.

  Veronica Roth

  Giving, Credit, Mouths

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Free Four - Tobias tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Fool, Being Smart, Ifs

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• He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Speed, Enough

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• It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hurt, Children, Evil

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name was--that tears started to my eyes.

  Charles Dickens

  Hurt, Sorry, Eye

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.375, Penguin

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• Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.

  Jill Shalvis

  Fun, Might, Obeying

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• David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and you’re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us, in a way, that are a lot more ambitious than that. And what we need, I think—and I’m not saying I’m the person to do it. But I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we’re smart. And that there’s stuff that TV and movies—although they’re great at certain things—cannot give us.

  David Lipsky

  Art, Thinking, Giving

  David Lipsky (2010). “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”, p.71, Broadway Books

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• Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.

  Maurice Sendak

  Writing, Kids, Vapid

  "Maurice Sendak Sheds Moonlight on a Dark Tale". www.nytimes.com. 1993.

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• Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Cute, College, Ivy

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2012). “Smart Girls Get What They Want”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Cute, Girl, Teenage

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• Don’t you listen to them, Rexy,” I cooed, and the cat sniffed my nose. “Rachel is a smart girl. She’s not going to go out with a ghost no matter how sexy he is. She knows better. Jenkskie wenskie can just get bent.” I beamed at Jenks, and he made an ugly face. “Rache, put my cat down before you mess with her kitty brain.

  Kim Harrison

  Girl, Sexy, Cat

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• Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

  Don Winslow

  Stupid, People, Sometimes

  Don Winslow (2012). “The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ellen Hopkins

  Getting High, Care, Yeah

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Glee, Said, Knows

  Maria V. Snyder (2011). “Outside In”, p.226, Harlequin

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• Don't pretend", I say Breathily. "You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty." "Fine. You're not pretty. So?" He kisses my cheek. "I like how you look. You're deadly smart. You're brave.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Brave, Looks

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• My hatred notwithstanding, I had to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart

  Richelle Mead

  Hatred, Dimitri

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.12, Penguin

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• I'll take care of my mother," he said grimly. "I love her, but she doesn't run my life." "Yeah, that's what we all say. You. Me. Lucy." She stabbed the stick into the dirt. "These are powerful women. They're sane, they're smart, they rule their worlds, and they love us ferociously. A potent combination that makes it touch to pretend they're normal mothers.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Running, Powerful

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• I guess Smart Seth is glad, he said reluctantly. But be careful. Idiot Seth is the guy to watch out for.

  Brandon Mull

  Guy, Watches, Idiot

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

  Mindy Kaling

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

  E. B. White

  Men, People, Fool

  1952 Charlotte. Charlotte's Web, ch.10.

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• It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

  Sarah Dessen

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Old Friends

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.28, Penguin

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Mean, Eye

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