Smartass Quotes:

Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Sometimes, Smartass

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

- Rob Pike

topic: Smart, Programming, Smartass

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

- Blake Butler

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Because I Can, Smartass, I Can

I'm a wiseass and a smartass, and I always have been.

- David Letterman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Smartass, Has Beens

It gets tiring being a smartass.

- Elaine Stritch

topic: Tire, Smartass

...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.472, Simon and Schuster

topic: Needs, World, Cadre, Smartass

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

- Jim Harrison

source: Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Disappointment, Giving, Risk, Spectrum, Human Love

The arresting officer, who I had literally known, all my life. You know what I mean? This guy lived four doors down the street me, in a town of less than four hundred people. *We've met.* Now, he takes me to jail, and he asks me if I have any aliases. And I was just being a smartass, and I said, "Yeah. They call me, "Tater Salad!" Seventeen years later, I'm handcuffed on a bench in New York with blood coming out of my nose, and this cop goes, "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?"

- Ron White

source: "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie", www.imdb.com. 2003.

topic: Funny, Mean, Doors, This Guy, Aliases

It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Beautiful, Wise, Stars, Guinness, Smartass

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

topic: Smart, Science, Lynching, Smart Ass, Smartass

I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.

- Maurice Sendak

topic: Crazy, Essence, Likes, Smartass

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

- Daniel Suarez

source: Daniel Suarez (2012). “Kill Decision”, p.78, Penguin

topic: Gun, Games, Numbers, Large Numbers, Smartass

Sway says you’ve been taking really good care of him for me. (Claria) Well, his mom did a great job housebreaking him, so he doesn’t require too much work. Not to mention Vik doesn’t mind walking him once a day. It’s all good. (Devyn) You’re such a smartass. (Claria)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.163, Macmillan

topic: Mom, Jobs, Mind, Too Much Work, Smartass

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

- Jim Harrison

topic: Love, Disappointment, Tired, Spectrum, Human Love

I like comedies, and my brain sort of spins in that direction. So I'm really happy to say there were several smartass comments that come from me [on Star Wars].

- Alan Tudyk

source: "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

topic: Stars, War, Brain, Smartass

[Diego Luna Cassian] quite a smartass, and I really appreciate smartasses. He used to make fun of me for the stupid backpack I wore. There were a few situations where I couldn't [wear the stilts]. [When] I was on a cliffside or running in water and stuff like that, I had to wear this backpack with a telescoping head that came off the top, and it was really stupid looking.

- Alan Tudyk

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Stilts, Smartass

I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Sick, Forgiving, Today, Chorus, Smartass

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

- Chris O'Donnell

source: "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.

topic: Trying, Answers, Way, Shock Value, Smartass

It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a "smartass." And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S." I'm proud of who I am.

- Joe Biden

source: "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". Interview with Chris Wallace, spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

topic: Party, Who I Am, Wings, Milwaukee, Donuts

It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.

- Carl Hiaasen

source: "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 07, 2016.

topic: Fun, Attitude, Book, Irreverent, Narrative Voice

Hey, T-Rex? Remind me next time I want to get smartass with you that it’s a really stupid move on my part? (Talon) Oh, no, you don’t, you wuss. You told me the next time you saw Ash you were going to ask him if he’d seen the movie 10,000 BC and if it’d made him homesick. (Wulf)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.756, St. Martin's Press

topic: Stupid, Moving, Ashes, Really Stupid, Talons

Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe: - Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible. - Remember, it's always better to be the smartass rather than the dumbass.

- Jill Shalvis

topic: Taken, Men, Two, Parking Spots, Dumbasses

Even Christian—the poster child for "smartass"—looked grim.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Christian, Children, Posters, Smartass