Very Smart Quotes

• I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Smart

  "AT LUNCH WITH: Fran Lebowitz; Words Are Easy, Books Are Not". Interview with Bob Morris, www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1994.

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• If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

  George Bernard Shaw

  Smart, Shoes, Rebel

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• I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

  Sienna Miller

  Birthday, Smart, Thinking

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• Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

  Andy Rooney

  Smart, Thinking, Boys

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  A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Being Strong, Wisdom, Stay Strong

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Leadership”, p.18, David C Cook

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• She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

  Johnny Depp

  Smart, Perfect, Kind

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• People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

  Brian McKnight

  Smart, People

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• The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Dog, Sorry

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.415, Princeton University Press

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• Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.

  2 Chainz

  Smart, Individual, Deals

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.

  Scott Rudin

  Beautiful, Smart, Writing

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• My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think it's a very smart thing to do a Muslim ban.

  Alex Kozinski

  Smart, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Smart, Decision, Looks

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• My colleagues across the aisle in Brooklyn and team Clinton are very smart people. I respect them very much. But they misread America. They, they did not have her in red states. They, they were pretending that they were going to turn red blue.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Smart, Team, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Ridley Scott obviously an iconic director, he's made some fantastic films. Obviously a very smart, very tasteful, thoughtful guy. So yeah, I'm in good shape; got Ridley Scott with The Cartel.

  Don Winslow

  Smart, Thoughtful, Guy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Kevin Feige and I have very smart people who work for us, who make sure that we see everything. And that we actually see everything. They see everything, tell us about it, we see it. You have to have people who work with you, who say 'you have to look at this film'. And then you look at it. You really have to look at it. You have to look at movies all the time.

  Amy Pascal

  Smart, People, Smart People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• My dad was a hard worker, very dedicated to his family - very smart. Didn't like to be told what to do. Kind of where I get my stuff from. One of the things that I've learned from my dad is - good or bad - is not to trust.

  Bubba Watson

  Dad, Smart, Hard Work

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

  Aaron McGruder

  Smart, Fluid, Energetic

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• An amazing piece of advice for a lot of kids, 50-year-olds, whoever is listening right now: Saving money is a good strategy. I didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving. They were saving. We didn't get toys. They told us to go outside and paint a rock. It was very, very smart because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store of his own in Springfield, New Jersey - Shoppers Discount Liquors. He built up a great business.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Smart, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

  Daniel Pipes

  Smart, Lebanon, Strategy

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• When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

  Tim Allen

  Smart, Opposites

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Mother, Children, Smart

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• The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

  Andrew Bogut

  Smart, Team, Player

  "Bogut downplays injury concerns, relishes fresh start with Warriors". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

  Haley Barbour

  Country, Smart, Thinking

  "Barbour Responds to 2012 Chatter". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2009.

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• I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.

  Pim Fortuyn

  Smart, Cities, Immigration

  "Holland's high-camp hero of new politics". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 4, 2002.

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• My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Smart, School, Effort

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