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Quotes About Intelligence

What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
~ Dan Deacon
Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.
~ Peter Beard
By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
~ Jason Bateman
A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.
~ Laurence Fishburne
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
~ Captain Beefheart
I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.
~ Nicholas D'Agosto
I am an actor but might not be smart enough to handle business, so it's always good to have intelligent people around who can look into other aspects of business.
~ Hina Khan
People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.
~ Patrick Ewing
Some days, I feel like being known as a smart players, sometimes clutch.
~ Robert Horry
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
~ Suzanne Vega
I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.
~ Rob Morrow
I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
~ Mary J. Blige
We assumed the customers were smart and that they'll buy what they like, not what the ads tell them to buy.
~ Renzo Rosso
I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.
~ Dylan O'Brien
Most pitchers are too smart to manage.
~ Jim Palmer
I want to make smart television.
~ Michael Ironside
In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
~ Rudy Rucker
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
~ Christopher Meloni
I do believe all actors are smart.
~ Ron Silver
Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.
~ Steve Spurrier
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
~ J. M. Coetzee
I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.
~ Megan Fox