Quotes About Alecks

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

Lemony Snicket

#2. You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

Hank Stram

#3. Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

Warren Buffett

#4. Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Sophocles

#5. He was going to have permanent scars in his palms in the shape of his finger nails if he wasn't careful. His hand was forgetting how to form any shape but a frustrated fist.

Kim Dare

#6. The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

E.B. White

#7. Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

Octavia E. Butler

#8. Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.

Loren Eiseley

#9. All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

James Martineau

#10. Evil, good, create, destroy. Puny minds. Puny caves. Time, MacKayla. Time absolves.
Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

Rush Limbaugh

#12. An Opportunity of doing Mischief, says -Zoroaster-, offers itself a hundred Times a Day; but that of doing a Friend a good Office but once a Year.

Voltaire

#13. I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

Edna O'Brien

#14. The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment.

Lydia Lunch

#15. I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.

Pearl S. Buck