Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Turnbull

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

Helena Christensen

Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb.

Jonathan Franzen

But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.

Joyce Carol Oates

Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

Sam Rockwell

I'm not going to just do a dumb zombie movie, although I love zombie movies.

Natalie Goldberg

I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.

Tim Robbins

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

Joyce Thompson

I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.

Susan Sontag

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Rob Halford

Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

Richard P. Feynman

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

Thomas Gray

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

Veronica Webb

I'm kind of like a dumb model.

Richard Bach

When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.

Tucker Max

Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

Roger Ailes

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.

Rob Reiner

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

Serj Tankian

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

Scott Weiland

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

Steven Pressfield

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

Steven Brust

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

Robert Anton Wilson

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Julian Smith

New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.

Rick Riordan

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

Rick Riordan

Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb. Annabeth: Was it hard?

Robert Green Ingersoll

The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

Saul Williams

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

Warren Buffett

Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

Warren Buffett

Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

Samuel L. Jackson

My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.

Salman Rushdie

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

William Feather

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.