Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Cornell

Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs.

Chris Cornell

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

Denis Diderot

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

Edgar Allan Poe

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edsger Dijkstra

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Edward Abbey

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

Dominic Cooper

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

Dirk Benedict

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

David Bowie

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Charles Portis

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

Tanja Frieden

I was stoked he did well (Thursday). We always say let's have a podium together. To do it here is wicked cool.

English Proverbs

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

A. J. P. Taylor

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

Charles Caleb Colton

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

Alan Rickman

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

Edith Wharton

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

William Shakespeare

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!