Quotes About Aleck

#1. Don't be a smart aleck," Hungry said.
"But it cheers me up," I said.

Lemony Snicket

#2. [Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck
'
[Opal] 'Was?'
[J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

Maria V. Snyder

#3. I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

Robert Penn Warren

#4. Basically, I have two speeds ... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

James Patterson

#5. These were people ... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

Rick Bragg

#6. Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

Rabbit Maranville

#7. Carli's was a small club at the end of a passage between a sporting-goods store and a circulating library. There was a grilled door and a man behind it who had given up trying to look as if it mattered who came in. (Smart-Aleck Kill)

Raymond Chandler

#8. I blame Jeb for letting you be such a
smart aleck."
I stared at her. "I blame you for altering
my DNA! I mean, I have wings,
lady! What were you thinking?

James Patterson

#9. When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Ben Stein

#10. I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

Carl Hiaasen

#11. She looked sideways at Aleck, taking a peek at the future walking beside her, and realized her life would never be the same.

D.A. Henneman

#12. I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

Megan Ellison

#13. You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life. Or, if we talk about it, we'll find a secular way of doing it that will not be offensive to people of non-belief. So, that you go through life with these alternate voices.

Richard Rodriguez

#14. It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. I don't recall either of you asking me, you know I'm a lady and I need to be asked and agree to it.

Amanda Kelly

#16. Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.

Adrian Rogers

#17. Freshman year was really great, actually. Pretty easy transition. We both made some new friends. No emotional trauma that wasn't solved with a Buggy and Floyd marathon. And then you had to get a boyfriend.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#18. I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it.

Aleck Bourne