Deanna Raybourn Quotes

I'm not an intimate of Donald Trump, but I have great instincts about people, and I have fairly good skill at sizing people up, and it's not phony. You can tell when somebody's talking to you and not really hearing you. I've been around powerful people ask me what I think about things, and I can tell they're not really listening. They just asked, to ask, try to score points that way. Trump listens. But you don't get the impression that he's listening from a position of indecisiveness, indecision or confusion. I've never met anybody with the energy this guy's got, either.

I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

Jayalalitha cannot be misled about anything. She is one of the most well informed persons today in Indian politics.

Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.

Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.

I think people are intelligent, empathetic, multi-dimensional.

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

I don't really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.

[John Larroquette] is one of the smartest men I've ever met. He's very cerebral and book-smart. He would say things and I'd have to go look them up, thinking, "That can't be true!" And they'd be true.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.