“I'll take my chances. It has you."And when a great man says something smart like that a smart woman just shuts up.”
“A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.”
“when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.”
“But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceeding slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested.”
“Booth: "You're a smart ass, you know that?"Brennan: "Objectively I'd say I'm very smart, although it has nothing to do with my ass.”
“Smart is not something you are... Smart is something you get!”