Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Amis

I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.

Pink

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

Philippa Gregory

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

Pope Francis

The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.

Pope Francis

I don't like it when I hear it said: 'but these youth say stupid things!'

Rachel Caine

I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?" "No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.

Rachel Caine

You think that because I want to do what’s right, because I want to make things better, I’m weak,” Claire said. “Or that I’m stupid. But I’m not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.

Peter McWilliams

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.

Pete Waterman

The public are not stupid.

Pete Seeger

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.

Peter Singer

The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.

Peter MacKay

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

R. A. Salvatore

Never confuse honor with stupidity!

Quentin Tarantino

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

Primo Levi

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

Pia Zadora

You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.

Pierce Brosnan

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

Natsuo Kirino

I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is.

Natsuki Takaya

I'm home! Yuki-Kun, Tohru-Kun, I'm home! Oh, and let's not forget Stupid-clumsy-Kyo-Kun-who-lost-yet-another-fight!" -Shigure

Natsuki Takaya

Ayame: This concludes my wonderful story. Kyo Sohma: You mean stupid!

Natsuki Takaya

Yuki: "What can I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn’t even know that Jason isn’t really a bear. He’s a character in a horror film." Kyo: "Yeah? So what if I didn’t? Like I’d waste my time watching some movie about a bear!" Yuki: You truly are an idiot.

Jim Parsons

Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

Jim Rohn

Learn all you can, don't be lazy. Nothing's worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad, but being stupid is what's really bad. And what's really really bad is being broke and stupid. Nothing's much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick, broke and stupid, that’s about as far as you can fall unless you're ugly. Surely that would be the ultimate; ugly, sick, broke and stupid.

George Lindsey

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

George Leigh Mallory

Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.

Emily Ratajkowski

A woman talks about having sex, and it's like, well, a guy got to have sex with you, so you're stupid. You've given something up.

Elvis Presley

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.

John Conyers

I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?'

Joel Silver

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

Joel Silver

I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.

Joe Abercrombie

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Joe Biden

I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.