Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eminem

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Elvis Costello

It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

Elvis Costello

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

Jawaharlal Nehru

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

Hillary Clinton

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Hillary Clinton

I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.

Hillary Clinton

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

Evgeny Morozov

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

Eugene Hutz

Millions of small changes can be done, and through that, there can be a bigger impact because anybody can talk to another person. Anybody can educate somebody if they feel like their neighbor is stupid. It's more like "Educate thy neighbor, my friend." I think that enthusiasm, and not giving into lazy-minded cynicism, is where the potential and hope is.

Eugene H. Peterson

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

Esperanza Spalding

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

Esther Dyson

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

Ernest Hemingway

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

Ernest Hemingway

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

Eva Green

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

Esai Morales

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.

Jhonen Vasquez

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!

Grover Norquist

They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.

Goose Gossage

These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of phony stuff. What does it mean when you really stop and think about it's kind of stupid.

Goldie Hawn

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

Gisele Bundchen

I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, 'She can just be a model because she can just be a model - she's dumb and she can't do anything else.'

Harper Lee

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Halle Berry

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Gregory David Roberts

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Iggy Pop

I wasn't so stupid that I didn't realize the implications of what they were saying. In my live work I was going for the quick thrill, rather than spending time concentrating on my voice. I figured I'd get on, make as many quick movement as possible, dance my ass off for five minutes, move into the insult portion of the evening, and then, at the end, create some kind of chaos until the 55 minutes were up.

Iain Banks

But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you. If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.

Iain Banks

My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

Iain Banks

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Hannah Arendt

If...the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.

Gore Vidal

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

Gore Vidal

Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best.

Gore Vidal

The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.