Smart Knowledgeable Quotes

#1. I can't tell you how many times I've been with very smart, knowledgeable Homeland Security experts who are essentially tasked with saving your life who do not trust you with information. They just don't. They kind of dismiss the media and the public in one fell swoop.

Amanda Ripley

#2. The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

Virginia Postrel

#3. Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

Bob Harper

#4. Writing a thesis is like writing a book, working incrementally with the professor is a communication exercise that assumes the existence of an audience,

Umberto Eco

#5. I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

Steven Moffat

#6. Henry Adams observes that John Hay has the ability to take the world as a whole rather than pulling it to pieces in criticism. He also observes that, in the routine of a stressful job, this perspective is challenged

John Taliaferro

#7. It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

Arthur Cohn

#8. You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues.

Howard Wolpe

#9. I may be smart, but I'm not knowledgeable.

Emma Iadanza

#10. Plans turn promises into results and dreams into realities.

Ron Kaufman

#11. For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn't anticipate. But I'm glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.

Eric Davis

#12. I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

Patton Oswalt

#13. Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers were often disappointed - but seldom in themselves.

Laura Lippman

#14. Delta is full of guys who can stay awake for a week and walk a hundred miles and shoot the balls off a tsetse fly, but it's relatively empty of guys who can do all that and then tell you the difference between a Shiite and a trip to the latrine.

Lee Child

#15. Oculus is actually more of a software company than it is a hardware company.

Brendan Iribe

#16. We are surrounded by evil forces in our daily lives. We must be wise enough to recognize them. Strong enough to resist them and resolute enough to destroy them.

J.E. Holling

#17. Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

Robert Scheer