Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Mark Cuban

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

Mitchell Baker

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

Eoin Colfer

I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

Alan King

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

Charlie Cox

We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.

Charles Stross

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Charles Stross

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

David Crosby

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

Michael Klepper

When you're live on television ?you've got to be very concise, very brief, and very direct,

Alan Hansen

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Al Michaels

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Callie Khouri

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.

Louis C. K.

There's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.

Eartha Kitt

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Isaac Barrow

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

Herbert Marcuse

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

Francis Picabia

The future is a monotonous instrument

Mike Murdock

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.