Quotes About Wise Guys

#1. Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.

Calvin Ayre

#2. We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

#3. Boobs on the make always try to impress with their high level of seriousness (wise guys, with their contempt for all seriousness.

Pauline Kael

#4. Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Robert Cormier

#5. When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Don Rickles

#6. In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Michael Steinhardt

#7. Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere ... including in branches of the U.S. government.

Sherry Morris

#8. Don't get smart or sarcastic
He snaps back just like elastic
Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics
We break wise guys just like matchsticks

Elvis Costello

#9. Get wise, youse guys!

Basil Wolverton

#10. That the quickest relief will come in forgetting.

Christina Baker Kline

#11. Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

Tim Wise

#12. You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's.

Marie Brennan

#13. Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia.

Gerald Vizenor

#14. Yoga makes you harmonious with nature and teaches you to be joyfully curious about your inner world.

Debasish Mridha

#15. 'Door,' called Richard. 'Don't do it. Don't set it free. We don't matter.'
'Actually,' said the marquis, 'I matter very much. But I have to agree. Don't do it.'

Neil Gaiman

#16. The point is [ ... ] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.

David Gemmell

#17. Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them - stupid people can't decide.

Deyth Banger

#18. A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#19. You're somethin' else, Hel. Know that? Dodged the sea toad, got rescued off that damned comet, bisected ol' Bron Elgar like a bagel out there on Cravat ... How the hell you get away from those damn fish down in the Glory Hole? Man, you got more lives than a New York alleycat.

Julian May

#20. Yeah. He wants to be a ... what do you call those guys?" "A sommelier?" "Right. Said he wanted to see your collection." "At fifteen he's already decided what he wants to be?" "Lots of guys have." "Is that wise? To limit your options at such a young age?

Ryu Murakami

#21. I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.

Aisha Tyler

#22. I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.

Robert Plant

#23. The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. - Maya Angelou.

Jasinda Wilder

#24. If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go.

Jim Butcher