Think You're Smart Quotes

#1. Because when I first saw you I thought-no, I knew-you were special. Because I still think that every time I look at you. Because I think you're smart and funny and brave. But most of all," he grins at me- "because I like questions.

Elizabeth Scott

#2. People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.

Brian Tracy

#3. You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, 'You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.

Bill Burr

#4. Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.

Gloria Steinem

#5. If you think you're smart,
think twice to be smarter.

Toba Beta

#6. Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

Craig Ferguson

#7. Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He was very powerful, and the fact that He expected you to think for yourself and do something in return for His help did not matter, as long as you could work things out.

Anne Holm

#8. And get some self-esteem. What the fuck is that? It's so annoying to see a pretty girl see herself as not worthy. You know what it makes us guys think you aren't worthy? We see you how you see you. You're pretty and funny and smart. Stop being such a douche-canoe.

Tara Brown

#9. Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?"
She nodded.
"Because someday you're going to grow into yourself, and you will be as beautiful as you already are smart.

Julia Quinn

#10. After all, the monsters think you're the delicious one."
"Smart monsters. I am tasty."
"Says who?"
"Don't believe me? See for yourself."
"Yeah? How?"
"Bite me.

Josephine Angelini

#11. I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.

Kelly Brook

#12. Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

Mitchell Baker

#13. Think of Forrest Gump. For him, magic just kept happening because he was in total allowance of everything. His life was magic because he didn't limit the possibilities of what could show up for him by judging anything. You could say he wasn't smart enough to judge. Maybe he was smart enough NOT to.

Dain Heer

#14. Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

Eric Liu

#15. They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

Laura Bush

#16. I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you can be smart and have a softness, you can have all of it.

Michael Kors

#17. A very smart woman once asked me, 'Do you think money is the answer to everything?' I have a family issue and I'm going home

Cindy Woodsmall

#18. If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

Elvis Presley

#19. The course made me think a bit, you know. That we're smart enough to get out of here. We're just too stupid to work out a way.

Cath Crowley

#20. I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

Sarah Dessen

#21. It was amazing. You don't have a choice but to play your best. They force you do do that because
they're smart and that's the fun part for me, I'm being challenged to think faster and be creative.

Sidney Crosby

#22. I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

Rob Bell

#23. He ran the back of his hand up her cheek, with the pretense of wiping away sweat. Do you think you could ever love me?
I don't think so.
Because I'm not good enough.
It's not like that.
Because I'm not smart.
No.
Because you couldn't love me.
Because I couldn't love you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#24. People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

Patrick Ewing

#25. You've got the holy trinity of what a girl wants, she said. Cute, smart, funny. I don't think you realize that.

Alex Bradley

#26. We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.

William J. Mitchell

#27. It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

Daniel H. Wilson

#28. I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

Pierre Trudeau

#29. People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say, you know what, all things considered, I don't think that was the smart move.

Chris Matthews

#30. And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're smart or that you try really hard at everything you do. I think you'd still deserve to walk with your head held high.

Hiro Fujiwara

#31. Most people are multi-talented and good at a lot of things, so I just think it's smart, especially in this day and age where the competition is so fierce, in every avenue, to have a bunch of things you're doing.

Allie Gonino

#32. There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.

Ned Tanen

#33. Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.

John Bytheway

#34. I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart.

Lily Collins

#35. Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

Jeffrey Kluger

#36. If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today ... is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past.

Toba Beta

#37. If you think you can't, you're right.

Carol Bartz

#38. I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

Jennifer Lopez

#39. I have only a couple friends, but I've known them since, like, you know, fourth grade or something. I've never changed anything about my little group of friends. I think if you're just smart, and you have the friends who care about you most, that's really all that matters.

Rob Kardashian

#40. If all you do is think about what you need, you're no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you've got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

Dan Groat

#41. As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.

Adam Levine

#42. I think that smart is sexy, and driven is sexy, and passion is sexy, and if you're passionate about math, so be it.

Jonathan Slavin

#43. If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

C.J. Cherryh

#44. Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring and they're trying to think of what the smart approach is to getting a line across.

David Gordon Green

#45. Okay kids," Ralphie said, trailing me. "Don't be too late. Don't do any drugs, drive smart and even if all the other kids are doing it, think twice. If you're going to be over your curfew then make sure you call your Daddies or we'll get worried.

Kristen Ashley

#46. Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.

Don Lemon

#47. Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about what it is you want to be doing and where ... you want to be going, but also be smart enough that you're essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.

Reid Hoffman

#48. When I look at my eighty-five-year-old face in the mirror today, I think, "You're never going to look better than you do today, honey, so smile." Whoever said a smile is the best face-lift was one smart woman.

Anita Diamant

#49. You're beautiful, you're smart, you think quickly in a crisis, and you kick ass. Do you have any idea what a desirous combination that is?"
"Since I could say the same about you, yes."
He grinned. "You're bold, too? Be still my heart.

Dianne Duvall

#50. You don't believe in second chances, Cole,"
"But you do, and I think we've already established you're the smart one here.

Elle Aycart

#51. You're not as smart as you think you are, but you've got more potential than you could possibly imagine. The secret from the one to other is humility.

Michael Hyatt

#52. Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.

Simone Elkeles

#53. Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene McCarthy

#54. I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.

Ani DiFranco

#55. When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.

George Carlin

#56. Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

Reese Witherspoon

#57. As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it - it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore.

Jay Leno

#58. I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

Portia De Rossi

#59. I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

Howard Rheingold

#60. There's all this talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, you know where he is now? Visiting Mexico, which I think means that he is definitely going to run for governor. Arnold is smart. He's in Mexico campaigning with the very people who'll be living here by election time.

Jay Leno

#61. I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.

Gillian Jacobs

#62. I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

Jewel

#63. You're never as smart as you think you are when you are winning and never as dumb as you feel when you are losing.

Michael Hyatt

#64. Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.

Carrie Coon

#65. First, you don't have to be smart to read books. Lots of idiots read books. Trust me, the ability to read does not necessarily mean the ability to think.

Marie Sexton

#66. Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think.

Lee Child

#67. You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

Sarah Gilbert

#68. Butler: Do you think I look deaf?
William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything.

Richmal Crompton

#69. The principal: You're a smart girl, so I'm going to be blunt. I think you'd be a lot happier if you stopped acting so weird.
Me: Who says I'm not happy?

Laura Ruby

#70. Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.

Jay Leno

#71. Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.

James Carville

#72. I think there is this thing where people are impressed - it gives you a leg up in the sense that people won't treat you like a run-of-the-mill actress. They'll assign "smart" to your word bank, your adjective bank.

Rashida Jones

#73. I don't think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, 'Oh, look at that - look how smart I was' or 'What a brilliant shot that is!' I don't believe in that.

Warren Beatty

#74. Eating smart is all about having an awareness of your body. The most obvious way to do that is by seeing it. So when you're trying to lose weight, spend more time wearing less. I don't think I could eat a plate of nachos naked - could you?

Marisa Miller

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. I think you're beautiful and smart and talented and deserve a man that can feel with something besides his dick.

Karen Marie Moning

#78. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.

Michael Lewis

#79. In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.

Eugene Levy

#80. I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

Matthew Fox

#81. It's always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#82. You don't understand guys Norah, we don't always think, we just do. It's hard for us to focus clearly sometimes and we end up just acting on impulse, which isn't always a smart thing.

Angela Richardson

#83. I had put a shower curtain on the floor, covered the couches and our new flat-screen TV with garbage bags. The midwife asked, "What do you think is going to happen in here?" I never said I was smart.

Jim Gaffigan

#84. Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."
When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.

David Sedaris

#85. I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

David Tennant

#86. I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

Evan Williams

#87. I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

James Gandolfini

#88. Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or even his father, George W. is immune from scandal. Because, if George W. testifies that he had no idea what was going on, wouldn't you believe him?

Jay Leno

#89. I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Sienna Miller

#90. I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.

Bill De Blasio

#91. She pointed a finger at him. "Smart men don't comment on a woman's eating habits, regardless of how many brownies she can shove in her mouth at one time."
He laughed. "In that case, I guess I'm not as smart as you think I am.

Kait Ballenger

#92. I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

James Brolin

#93. For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it?

Eugene H. Peterson

#94. Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my God, a piece of cheese tastes so good'. I think it's your body telling you something.

Jean Smart

#95. Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are, Mr. Stark."
"Nonsense. I'm fucking brilliant. Or haven't you heard?

J. Kenner

#96. People don't want to think about it.' 'I can see why,' I said. 'It makes my head hurt.' 'Still, you did better than most people. You're a pretty smart kid.' I rolled my eyes. 'Gee, thanks.

Rebecca Stead

#97. Sometimes along the way in my life I don't want a smart woman right now, I want a dumb woman. But then you think, 'That doesn't work, now I want a smart woman.' Then you get a smart woman and you go, 'No, that doesn't work.' So it's just killing me right now.

Gerard Butler

#98. There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

Meg Ryan

#99. We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Stephen King

#100. I think our movie, 'Now You See Me,' is an emotional movie rooted in smart and wits and fully amazing actors working perfectly together. It's like a supergroup of musicians.

Louis Leterrier