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I just want to say that um, I'm just really, really shocked at like how nice our world is because it's just so nice. Like oh my God! Like, the other day, like I was sitting there and I saw these magazines and they said I was pregnant, and like, it's so true. Like America, believe everything you read. Because, like, you're smart and I'm stupid. Like for real. Come on y'all.

There are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.

Alan Rusbridger

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead so doing something worthwhile for his country. So maybe he owes all of us an apology...

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

James Patterson

The Venn Diagram of guys who don't like smart girls and guys you don't want to date is a circle.

I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.

A geek is like a dork. Someone who's on the fringe, who you wouldn't want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me. You're not a nerd! It's okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I'm weird. I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. I mean, why be normal?

Susane Colasanti

You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

Kathleen Turner

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

Elizabeth Gaskell

Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

Shirley MacLaine

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

Marcus Aurelius

In many, many fields. I expected people in the social sciences-economics, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, politics, sociology, religion and numerous other areas to pick up on it. It's been somewhat of a mystery to me why even to this day, so few social scientists have discovered how useful it could be. Instead, Fuzzy Logic was first embraced by engineers and used in industrial process controls and in "smart" consumer products such as hand-held camcorders that cancel out jittering and microwaves that cook your food perfectly at the touch of a single button. I didn't expect it to play out this way back in 1965.

I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

Akmon squealed with delight. I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!

Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we'd finally find our people.

Sarah Strohmeyer

I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.

Silence is all the genius a fool has and it is one of the things a smart man knows how to use when he needs it.

Zora Neale Hurston

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we accept his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Corra Mae Harris

Ask yourself: "Do I police what people say for political propriety? … do I scrutinize great literature, music, art, television or comedy for signs of so-called sexism, racism, elitism, homophobia, antisemitism and meanness? Am I incapable of appreciating a superbly written script or book; a sublime painting or symphony; a smart stand-up routine, if only because the material and its creator violate the received laws of political correctness?"

The Lamb, and all His grief and smart,
Shall be the pleasure of my heart,
While it doth move in me;
And when that heart no more shall move,
My Spirit, finding her old Love,
Shall kiss Him tenderly.

Then you and I, and thousands more,
From this, and your, and every shore,
Shall each the other find:
Happy in that which always here,
When to the heart 'twas plain and clear,
The many members join'd.

And then, too, we shall think no more,
What we were used to think before;
Alas! how distant we!
The Blood will flow through every limb
On each of us from Him! from Him!
And we united be.

James Hutton (Moravian)

There are two ways to look at this earth. Some people look at this world and say, 'You know it's amazing! A 'Big Bang' made this from nothing!' That's the Humanist worldview which says, 'Man is god.' Other people look at the world and say, 'You know its incredible design! There must be a smart designer.' That's the Creationist worldview which says, 'God is God.'

When poets talk of cottages and hermitages, and such like matters, they mean a house with six sashes in front, two comfortable parlours, a smart staircase and three bed-chambers of convenient dimensions; in short, exactly such a house as this.

Letter to Lady Hesketh, 26 November 1786

Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.

Michael Ondaatje