Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

Eckhart Tolle

People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid.

Elie Wiesel

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

Dwight L. Moody

If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

Courtney Love

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

Courtney Love

It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

Andy Partridge

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

Andy Roddick

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

Albert Gubay

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

Albert Ellis

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

Albert Brooks

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

Albert Brooks

You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.

Albert Camus

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

Albert Camus

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

Albert Camus

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Amanda Hocking

How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

Amanda Palmer

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

Annie Dillard

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

Annie Dillard

The interior life is often stupid.

Annie Dillard

The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.

Clayton Christensen

In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish my doctorate, and so I had a deep respect for the brains, talent, and dedication of managers. That made it hard for me to believe the attributions in the business press that stupid management was to blame. So I looked elsewhere for an explanation.

Czeslaw Milosz

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

D. H. Lawrence

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

Cullen Hightower

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

Conrad Veidt

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

Conrad Veidt

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

Clint Eastwood

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Clarence Darrow

It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater possibilities and grander heights.

Danny Kaye

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

Daniel Dennett

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

David Fincher

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

David Foster Wallace

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.