Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Foster Wallace

Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?

David Cronenberg

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Daryl Hannah

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

Donella Meadows

Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable?

Donella Meadows

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Don Kardong

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

Don King

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

Doug Stanhope

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

Doug Stanhope

Anything that I don't understand or can't do is stupid.

Douglas Adams

It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.

Douglas Adams

Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do.

Douglas Adams

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

Douglas Adams

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

Doris Lessing

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

Doris Lessing

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

Colin Powell

The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

Claude Chabrol

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

Claude Chabrol

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

Claude Chabrol

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Cory Doctorow

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

Cory Doctorow

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Clive James

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

Clint Eastwood

I found out that a lot of my liberal friends weren't liberal because they weren't liberal about approaching anybody else's ideas, or at least standing for it. They started getting really animalistic about, "I can't even associate with this guy. He's stupid. He's an idiot."

Darcy Tucker

I know it sounds stupid, but we're just playing. We're playing hard, but we're just playing.

Darcy Tucker

I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

Andre Breton

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Andre Gide

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

Andre Gide

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Ann Rinaldi

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

Andy Williams

There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.

Anatole France

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.