Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Butcher

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

Jim Butcher

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

Jim Butcher

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate stupidity.

Jesse Ventura

People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.

Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate against stupidity.

Jesse Ventura

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

Jesse Ventura

If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.

H. P. Lovecraft

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

George Herbert

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Jay Leno

A congressman actually apologized to BP's CEO for the way the company has been treated. How stupid are you when the CEO of BP is in the room and people think you're the moron?

Jay Leno

The nation's largest savings and loan, Washington Mutual, has become the biggest bank failure in history. See, the problem with the savings and loans? Not enough savings, too many stupid loans, okay In fact, they changed their name from WaMu to 'screw you.'

Jay Leno

Saddam Hussein has invited members from the U.S. Congress to visit Iraq. Man how stupid is Hussein? If you think Bush had incentive to bomb Iraq before, imagine if Congress was over there.

Jay Leno

I'm a staunch Independant. Every time I think I am a Republican, they do something greedy, and every time I think I am a Democrat, they go and do someting stupid.

Jay Leno

President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that -- Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore.

Jay Leno

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

Camryn Manheim

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Bum Phillips

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

Bruno Mars

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

James Hilton

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

Molly Ivins

The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

Milos Forman

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

Keira Knightley

I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I'm perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

Karin Slaughter

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Karin Slaughter

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Julian Barnes

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.

Julian Barnes

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.

Ken Kesey

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

Kato Kaelin

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

Kris Kristofferson

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

Kirstie Alley

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

Kim Harrison

God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron)