Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabriel Iglesias

I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories.

George Jean Nathan

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

Christine Feehan

Don't cater to stupidity.

Christiane Amanpour

What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.

I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

Chrisette Michele

People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.

Chris O'Dowd

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

Chris Lowe

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Chris Lilley

I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

Chris Isaak

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

George W. Bush

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

George W. Bush

My answer is bring 'em on.

George W. Bush

Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

George W. Bush

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

George W. Bush

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

George W. Bush

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

George V. Higgins

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

George Tenet

It's a slam-dunk case!

George Ripley

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

George Orwell

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

George Orwell

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

George Orwell

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

George R. R. Martin

The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

George R. R. Martin

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

George R. R. Martin

He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

Jean Cocteau

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Jean Cocteau

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

Jean de la Bruyere

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

George Carlin

Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

George Carlin

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

George Carlin

No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.

George Carlin

The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash.

George Carlin

Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.