Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Simon

If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.

Carrie Fisher

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Carrie Fisher

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Carrie Fisher

Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

Carrie Underwood

I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.

Carl Sagan

How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Carl Sagan

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Carl Sagan

We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

Carl Sagan

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. ...

Juan Samuel

Some of the people called the guy dumb and stupid and said they didn't think he was going to make it.

Mickey Andrews

Playing hard and playing dumb is two different things.

Erik Crawford

I was a little slow rotating over there and made a dumb foul.

Rob Sheffield

That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.

Donald Trump

I think it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, ... in love with Adolph Hitler.

Shane Warne

I think that is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen,

Jerry Coleman

I don't feel quite as dumb as they make me look,

Bill Burgess

He just played dumb on the stand. He remembered some facts and didn't remember others.

Solomon Short

Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at

Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Anna Seward

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Jean Piaget

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

Eric Ries

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Philip James Bailey

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

Max Planck

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Leo Tolstoy

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.