Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Sand

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder ...

George Sand

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

George Sand

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

George Sand

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

George Sand

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

Jenna Fischer

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

Jeffrey Archer

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

Jerry Pournelle

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

Jerry Spinelli

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

Eoin Colfer

No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.

Eminem

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

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.