Quotes About Smart

I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

Schoolteachers were smart, educated, accustomed to hard work, unused to high pay, simultaneously youthful and mature, and

You dogs are smart enough to know that worry is something you do with a bone, and let it got at that. Even Pavlov couldn't do any more than prove that your brain is in your gut--something that you knew all along.

Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops.

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

Everyone knew that bugs traveled in packs. Only the stupid ones got caught. The smart ones lay in wait for her to go to sleep so they could attack.

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?

I turned to Grey again. "The point is, killing someone is almost never the smart move, long term. Sometimes it's got to be done if you want to survive—but the more you do it, the more you risk creating more enemies and buying yourself even more trouble." Grey seemed to consider that for a moment, and then shrugged. "The argument is not entirely without merit. Tell me, wizard, does it give you some sort of satisfaction to protect this man?

When people come to the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book for help, they're one of two things: desperate or smart. Very rarely are they both.

Lara said. "They're smart, skilled, dedicated, professional, they've got several centuries of collective knowledge through the Masons, and they will absolutely be coming to learn whatever they can. They are extremely dangerous.

Immortality offers a significant advantage, but it is no substitute for intelligence. Remember that, young wizard.

Dead silence. "Drink some coffee," I told him. He did. "Scared?" "Yeah." "Good," I said. "That's smart." "Well, then," he murmured. "I m-must be the smartest guy in the whole world.

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

There is no gain without an effort, some gain with lots of effort and wonderful gain with smart effort.

S T U P I D = Smart Talented Unique Person In Demand.

I do believe losing your head has made you more intelligent.

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

Really, The smart thing to do was to stop dating and get a cat.

She wasn't even supposed to be in fourth grade at all, she was supposed to be in third. Just because she was supposed to be super smart--"precocious," the grown-ups called it--didn't mean he had to like her. Wally began to think that precocious was just about the most awful thing you could possibly be, next to dead.

You're kind of a psycho. I get that." "I might be," Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. "You're one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now." Claire blinked. "Archaeologist." Monica's eyes turned winter cold. "Oh, you'd better start running away now.

It's in Latin." "So? What does it say?" "I don't read Latin!" "You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?

I can handle Glory. Can you? Eve asked. Because I notice you never call her Gloriana. Just Glory. He shut up. Which is probably about the only smart thing he can do, Claire thought.