Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

P. J. O'Rourke

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

Mary Baker Eddy

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

Martin Gore

The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things...

Martin Freeman

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Mark McGwire

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

Mark Feehily

When I got my head shaved, it was all over the papers. It's weird that when you get a haircut you are in the papers, it's pretty stupid

Marion Barry

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

Marilyn Monroe

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

Nicki Minaj

This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.

Nick Hornby

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

Mary-Louise Parker

I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the other finale so I thought it was going to be really stupid but some people really liked it.

Mary-Louise Parker

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

Mary McCarthy

it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.

Nicholas Meyer

So the Lincoln movie gets trashed because Connecticut voted for the amendment - not to mention how the people in Connecticut feel - but there's a lot of that. And I think it precedes from a fundamental misunderstanding of cinema. They are entertainment. And I'd like to say that entertainment isn't a synonym for disposable or mindless or stupid. Hamlet? Pretty entertaining from where I come from.

Nicholas Meyer

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

Nicholas Sparks

I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

Nicholas Sparks

He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he'd done, but in the next breath tell her she'd deserved it. That if she'd been more careful, it wouldn't have happened. That if she'd been paying attention or hadn't been so stupid, he wouldn't have lost his temper.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

Oscar Wilde

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

Oscar Wilde

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Oscar Wilde

There's no sin but stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

The only sin is stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

Mac Miller

I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.

Lucille Ball

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

Louis Farrakhan

I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America.

Louis Farrakhan

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

Lorraine Hansberry

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

Lorrie Moore

I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of saying, "You are a stupid blithering idiot," said, "Well I think it's a little more complicated than that.

Michael Jackson

The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.