Smart Alec Quotes

#1. At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels.'

Peter David

#2. I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

Martin McDonagh

#3. I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

Anthony LaPaglia

#4. I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

Bob Cousy

#5. I truly believe that people do the best they can.

Katharine Hepburn

#6. I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

Edan Lepucki

#7. That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

Steven Soderbergh

#8. I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

Dave Holland

#9. The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#10. We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.

David Horowitz

#11. People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon.

Alasdair Gray

#12. I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk act and think.

Orson Scott Card

#14. Those who don't have goals are forever doomed to work for those who do, author

Doreen Virtue

#15. I have two really great best friends that are the only people I hang out with. I keep a close circle.

Kylie Jenner

#16. I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I've got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I've got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that's about it.

Paul Weller