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Smart Quotes

On sharp minds, quick wit, and looking clever.

This set leans playful and observational, from a comedian describing brilliant college roommates to a dry one-liner about thrones and humility. For related wit, see Like.

I definitely feel like I'm a really good playmaker, a really smart point guard that can lead his team and win.

Quotes by Trey Burke

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

Quotes by Tony Hillerman

The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure...

Quotes by Tony Abbott

I played in 'From the Earth to the Moon,' working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart.

Quotes by Tom Verica

Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity.

Quotes by Tom Perez

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

Quotes by Tom Brokaw

Carol Kane is just as warm as you would think she is, and she is so smart and really a living legend and has so much to offer.

Quotes by Tituss Burgess

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

Quotes by Tina Brown

Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a...

Quotes by Tina Brown

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond...

Quotes by Tina Fey

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.

Quotes by Tina Majorino

Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.

Quotes by Timothy Morton

If the federal government is dumb enough to give it to us, we'll be smart enough to take it. In Minnesota's case, we are not a net taker of money from the federal government.

Quotes by Tim Pawlenty

I figured my wife was about to start law school. If that whole baseball pitching thing didn't work out, I had something to fall back on. I figure I'd put a ring on her finger. Turns out she was the...

Quotes by Tim Hudson

'White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.

Quotes by Tim DeKay

We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

Quotes by Tilman J. Fertitta

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

Quotes by Tim Allen

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

Quotes by Tia Carrere

Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.

Quotes by Thomas P.M. Barnett

When we're up 1-0 after 88 minutes, I don't sprint to the sidelines to take a throw-in - I expect that I and my team will be smart.

Quotes by Thomas Muller

Frequently Asked Questions

What angle do these "smart" quotes take?
They look at "smart" from a few angles — sizing someone up by comparison, admiring roommates' intelligence, quoting an anonymous wise saying, and describing how something can look smart on the surface.
Is there a quote comparing someone's intelligence to a child's?
Yes — one quote compares a public figure, Slobodan Milosevic, saying he "was just as smart as a five-year-old," and adds that "Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem." It's presented here exactly as that speaker's own comparison.
Is there a quote about living with smart people?
There is. One speaker recalls living with "Harvard MD/PhD students" who "were so smart," while joking that their own role in the house was being "the funny one."
Is there a quote quoting someone else's wisdom?
Yes — one line begins, "Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse," passing along a saying about humility. Find more on our Great quotes page.
Is there a quote about things that look smart but aren't necessarily better?
Yes. One quote observes that virtual relationships "look smart and clean, feel easy to use," when compared with "the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff" of real relationships. Browse more on our Good, Like, and Love quotes pages.

One quote pushes back on things that only look smart on the surface, contrasting polished appearances with something more genuine underneath. See also Good and Great.