Best Street Smart Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Elimane had taught the little family to make a point of memorizing the current prices of all sort of commonly needed goods and services; asking the price was essentially announcing your lack of street smarts and pleading to be overcharged.”

Food Scarcity Street Smart

Book:Little Family

Source: Little Family

“How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, I could do that too. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as 'street-smarts,' as in 'You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Piper's got street-smarts.”

Authority Survival Emotions Prison Self Reliance Stoicism Street Smart

Book:Orange Is the New Black

Source: Orange Is the New Black

“These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.”

Poor Rich Society Murder Safety Victim Protection Naive Generation Robbery Steal Street Smart Mugging Gun Point Holdup Purse Snatching

Author:Anthony Liccione

“Hunger scares me.”

Survival Instinct Crime Thriller Street Smart Mafia Fiction Tense Reads Hardboiled Vibes

Book:Mob Justice: A Scavenger Hunt Thriller

Source: Mob Justice: A Scavenger Hunt Thriller

“...Just as some men are counted as book smart but not street smart, a man of sound theology is not necessarily a man of sound politics. If he is naive and ill-informed in the current culture, or in the spirit of the times, it is possible that he will enact his right faith for the wrong forces.”

Religion Faith Culture Politics Information Theology Naivety Street Smart Book Smart Ill Informed

Author:Criss Jami

“While her mother worked, Megara took care of their own life- cleaning their rented spaces, cooking so her mother wouldn't have to after a backbreaking day, and minding the money her mother brought home. If young Megara had learned anything from her time with her father, it was to hold on to her drachmas. She counted and recounted what her mother earned and learned to keep a budget for food so that they wouldn't go hungry if they could help it. And though girls weren't afforded school, Meg taught herself to read using the stone signs in the square, stealing Homer's works out of the school-aged boys' bags when she could. She watched the merchants in the market accept payment from shoppers, learning how to count coins and what each one meant.”

Street Smart Megara Hard Knock Life

Book:Go the Distance

Source: Go the Distance

“When it comes to politics, there are far fewer truly smart people than there are people who merely know how to play the game of seeming smart.”

Politics Economics Intelligence Social Issues Understanding The World Street Smart False Knowledge Book Smart Unintelligent Passion Political Ignorance

Author:Criss Jami

“Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of mostly bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the design, engineering and performance to inspire consumers and ignite the mid-size SUV market.”

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Author:George Murphy

“There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.”

People Knows Kind Book Different Streets Computer Smart Different Kinds Street Smart

Author:J. B. Smoove

“I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.”

Ifs Firsts Guy Cities Streets New York Smart First Time New York City Mississippi Ohio Street Smart

Author:J. B. Smoove

“They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.”

Ifs Feels Country Streets Smart Street Smart

Author:Dolly Parton

“I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.”

Book Real House Lost Forget Streets Smart Real Life Dumb Jackets Cab Street Smart

Author:Masi Oka

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

Streets Smart Rodeo Street Smart Rodeo Drive

Author:Carrie Fisher

“For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.”

Book Able Brain Streets Talent Smart Appearance Sexy Feminine Street Smart

Author:Usher

“We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.”

Needs Play Science Ability Streets Smart Evidence Violin Street Smart

Book:Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity

Source: Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity

“I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.”

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Author:Richard Beymer