Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Greenspun

Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.

Peter Ustinov

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

Peter Ustinov

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

Peter Lerangis

Cheyenne snatched back her phone. "Someone took her brave pills today." "And washed them down with stupid juice," Casper added, cocking his gun.

Peter Kreeft

It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies.

Peter Gallagher

You can only be stupid when you're young.

Peter Berg

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

Phil Anselmo

I may be loaded. I may be drunk. But I ain't stupid.

Phil Collins

This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.

Queen Latifah

Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.

Maggie Stiefvater

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Maggie Stiefvater

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.

Maggie Stiefvater

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

Maggie Stiefvater

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

Haruki Murakami

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

Harlan Ellison

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Harlan Ellison

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

Han Fei

Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.

Gustav Stresemann

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Gustave Flaubert

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Gustave Flaubert

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Gustave Flaubert

Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

Gustave Flaubert

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Greg Bear

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

John Dryden

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

John Mayer

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

John Malkovich

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

John Lennon

I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .

Justin Timberlake

You mean, like a book?

Julie Burchill

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

Katherine Boo

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.