Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Forester

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I like 'Zorro.' I like people you can believe that don't have those stupid powers. That is the beauty of Zorro. He's just a guy working for the people, to save the people.

Carl Icahn

Now the guy that got to the top, the CEO, would obviously be stupid to have a number two guy who was a lot smarter than he is. So by definition, since he's a survivor and he got to the top and he isn't that brilliant, his number two guy is going to always be a little worse than he is. So, as time goes on, it's anti-Darwinism, the survival of the un- fittest.

Carl Hiaasen

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

Kurt Vonnegut

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

Kurt Vonnegut

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

Thomas Brooks

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Charley Reese

People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.

Charles Krauthammer

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

Aidan Quinn

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

Bo Burnham

I'd really love to make something that doesn't involve my stupid face.

Bo Burnham

I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.

Billy Idol

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

Bill Peterson

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

Bill Parcells

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.

Bernie Mac

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

Edith Wharton

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

Eartha Kitt

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

David Ricardo

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

David Henry Hwang

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

David Hilbert

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

David Hume

He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately have the most tragical conclusion, and most terminate in destruction to the greater number, and in a total dissolution of society to the rest.

David Hume

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

David Hume

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Dinkins

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

David Brooks

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

Ben Stiller

A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

Beatrice Dalle

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

Bear Grylls

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

Barney Frank

The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.

Audrey Tautou

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

Arthur Phillips

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.