Quotes of: Smarts Keyword

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

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

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion. But I realized something as I drove home t...

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Had I realized while on Earth," he said, "that Hell was such a delightful place, I should have put more faith in the teachings of religion. As it was, I actually doubted its existence. A foolish error, cherie. I am pleased to say that you have conver...

Ladies in Hades: A Story of Hell's Smart Set & Gentlemen in Hades: The Story of a Damned Debutante

Billy Brown: I don't believe them! Layla: No, Billy it's good... you know it's good if they like me, then they will be proud of you. Billy Brown: Bullshit... my life is shit. Layla: If you were my son,i-iii would be really proud of you. Billy Brown: ...

Buffalo '66

...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.

Chasing the Prophecy

I never knew a woman could be fierce and beautiful and smart before I met you. Every time I see you I think of a hawk, beautiful and deadly.

A Cast of Stones

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.

The Dirty Girls Social Club

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.

Ender's Game

Rock and roll is music," said Vanya. "Prokofiev is music, Stravinski is music, Tchaikovski and Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov and even Rachmaninov, THEY are music. Rock and roll is smart boys with no respect, YOU are rock and roll.

Enchantment

People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.

Forever, Interrupted

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

Fearless

Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be, from understanding them.

The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading

Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

The Glass Castle

Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

Heaven and Hell

But Finn was like no one else. He could be funny, teasing, informative all at once. I was discovering that smart, engaged dialogue with a man is extremely erotic. Cleverness is an aphrodisiac.

The Bette Davis Club