Top 100 Smart'n'civ'lize Quotes
#1. Smart'n'Civ'lize ain't nothin' to do with the color o' the skin, nay.
David Mitchell
#2. But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move.
Gillian Flynn
#3. She is smart. She is principled. She is tough, and she is ready. Hillary is the single most experienced and prepared person who has ever run for president.
Leon Panetta
#4. A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
Taeyang
#5. Information and communication technologies have changed the way of life completely. Nowadays, many people reach for their smart phones and/or turn their computers on as soon as they wake up. They look at the news on social networks and check e-mails, before they get dressed or have breakfast.
Eraldo Banovac
#6. Paul a smart kid," Hawk said. "I know." "And he pretty strong," Hawk said. "He is." "Got from his uncle," Hawk said. "Uncle Hawk?" "Sho' nuff." "Jesus Christ," I said.
Robert B. Parker
#7. I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
George W. Bush
#8. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
J.K. Rowling
#9. Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.
Cynthia Nixon
#10. Think Positively.
Network well.
Eat healthy.
Work Smart.
Stay Strong.
Build faith.
Worry less.
Read more.
Be happy.
Volunteer freely.
Relax often.
Love always.
Live eternally
and you will see doors open to your favor.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#11. What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.
Tom Brokaw
#12. We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
Van Jones
#13. At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.
Gemma Chan
#14. I was let go after one of the doughnut girls caught me debating the varying merits of the free toys with a four-year-old. What can I say? She was a smart four-year-old. I also thought the Sleeping Beautys were sappy.
Jojo Moyes
#15. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
Al Franken
#16. Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.
Maile Meloy
#18. God, if only I were smart enough to know I'm worth more than being kept secret
Anthony Paull
#20. The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
Bob Shacochis
#21. The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. So you'll have to just trust me when I say that you are worthy, important, and necessary. And smart. You may ask how I know and I'll tell you how. It's because right now? YOU'RE READING. That's what the sexy people do. Other,
Jenny Lawson
#23. Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office ... that's what Jesus would do.
Mike Huckabee
#24. Rarely do you get those glimmers of unadulterated love and, if you're smart, you pack them away for darker days.
Craig Johnson
#25. Lips. You need to have three or four smart questions ready, and it's nice to have them on a note card you take out so you really seem prepared.
Kate White
#26. In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!
Emily Dickinson
#27. There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.
Mike Huckabee
#28. Housecats is smart too. Smarter'n a dog or a mule. Folks thinks they ain't on account of you cain't learn em nothin, but what it is is that they won't learn nothin. They too smart.
Cormac McCarthy
#29. I studied enough to make A's and B's (mostly B's) but it was really all about beer, the occasional bottle of tequila and rock 'n' roll. Dad said I was lucky I was a smart girl or I'd be fucked. Mom warned if I didn't get smarter, I'd end up fucked.
Kristen Ashley
#30. ADUNCITY (ADU'NCITY) n.s.[aduncitas, Lat.]Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question, but the aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals.Arbuthnot and Pope'sMart. Scrib.
Samuel Johnson
#31. Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope they know this n b smart!
Styles P
#32. Perhaps," Mg. Katter cut in, "she's finally gotten smart. In and out, job done."
Mg. Hughes said, "No. Not her." He paused. "She knows Emery is critical to the syndicate, they all do. He's personally invested in it. That, and she's always kept a . . . keen . . . interest in him.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#33. If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield
#34. A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.
Fidel Castro
#35. Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.
Elizabeth Smart
#36. Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.
Barton Gellman
#37. Would you like some more pancakes? Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to eat on the job. But I must keep up my strength.
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
#38. E smart, don't be a retard.
Eminem
#39. We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
Scott Adams
#40. I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.
Lisa Randall
#41. Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
Shelley Duvall
#42. He's a good-looking sap, and he knows it. He's just exactly smart enough to know that he can only be important in a place where he has no competition.
Adriana Trigiani
#43. The good news about showcasing chefs and the TV shows is they've attracted a lot more smart kids to the profession than 30 years ago. On the downside, though, these young chefs all say they want their own restaurant and their own TV show.
Wolfgang Puck
#44. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.
Oscar Wilde
#45. He's as strong as an ox ... and ALMOST as smart!
Roddy Piper
#46. We have enough youth - how about a fountain of smart?
Various
#47. If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
Danica McKellar
#48. I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.
Hugh Jackman
#49. I felt betrayed and absolutely livid, but my body wasn't smart enough to know it. It had liked the feel of his hands, wanted more of it, wanted it now. It was almost like there were two of me, one who heartily approved of the mage and one who would have dearly loved to see him dead.
Karen Chance
#50. All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town would be covered night & day by an inky pall.
Ron Koertge
#51. Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
Brandon Mull
#52. This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!
Oliver DeMille
#55. Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.
David Weigel
#56. There's a vulnerability about Rose, even a sweetness in her eyes, but there's no mistaking her priorities. Smart, tough, determined, she is essential, but rarely the dog that people melt over or want to take home. Yet she's a great dog.
Jon Katz
#57. Can a Filipina be depicted as smart without having to shout all the time? Or down-to-earth and honest without having to start every sentence with a snarky 'Hay nako' or 'Alam mo bah'?
Arnold Arre
#58. I don't mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.
C. Kennedy
#59. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
Carla Harris
#60. Boys do suck the brains out of smart girls.
K.A. Tucker
#61. Maybe if the men in my life weren't always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn't have to worry about bruises so much.
Julie Powell
#62. I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.
Jaden Smith
#63. You're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse.
Gena Showalter
#64. I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their stories. They have rich, dynamic characters which are so much fun to play.
Evangeline Lilly
#65. You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.
Herb Brooks
#66. I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.
Scott Foley
#67. It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.
Betty Dodson
#68. I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.
George Carlin
#69. There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.
Rob Dyrdek
#70. Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
Alex Pareene
#71. I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
Winston Groom
#72. Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.
Tina Majorino
#73. I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.
Maurice Gibb
#74. I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.
Ronald D. Moore
#75. I think you're beautiful and smart and talented and deserve a man that can feel with something besides his dick.
Karen Marie Moning
#76. Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -
Charles Stross
#77. You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
Tony Hillerman
#78. People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.
Michael Patrick King
#79. So you're the little smart ass from Poleglass.
I wanted to point out he sounded like Dr. Seuss but bit my lip and remembered the warning the old lady gave me.
David Louden
#80. When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
Andy Stanley
#81. Obnoxious smart-ass. Never been anywhere, never done anything, huh. Arrested development, huh. Considering that it was coming from a man who spent his nights peeing on his neighbors' fences, that was rich. Shoot, I should've told him that.
Ilona Andrews
#82. Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#83. Then let me be your mercy," he said. "I'll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#84. Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.
Ben Bernanke
#86. I feel completely fearless when I'm on stage. And also totally fearful. There's the fear that I'm not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there's the stronger belief that these things need to be said.
Andy Kindler
#87. I smoke weed.It's not an addiction. It's something I wanna do. It's not smart though. It's not good for my body but I'm doing it. I'm not telling people to do it.
Schoolboy Q
#88. Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
Joe Biden
#89. Someone told me to dumb my poetry down, but I told them I can't because I don't have a smart phone.
Delano Johnson
#90. I'm not a free trader, but I am a free trader, but I'm also a fare trader and a smart trader. I want to make sure that the United States gains something. So I think you would probably agree.
Donald Trump
#91. It's not very smart to keep trying to do something you can't do and never will be able to do.
Steve Brown
#92. There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter,
Casper Smart
#93. Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overlook my past ways.
Drake
#94. Hire people who are smarter than you are - whose talents surpass yours - and give them opportunities for growth. It's the smart thing to do and it is a sign of high personal humility.
Bruna Martinuzzi
#95. The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
Dennis C. Blair
#96. You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.
Sanaya Roman
#97. Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.
Kim Cattrall
#98. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
Carl Sagan
#99. I'm out to change people's attitudes about them. Wolves are a whole lot more than just predators who feast on a rancher's herd. They're smart and clever and loyal and courageours, and sometimes they do really stupid, silly things, just like people.
R.C. Ryan
#100. I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
Anthony LaPaglia
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