Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Lewis

People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid they'll be stupid. The question was, did they know they were being stupid or were they just stupid? I think you need to take it on a case by case basis. There was some sinister activity, but I think by and by it was people being incentivised to do the wrong thing.

Melissa Marr

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

Michele Bachmann

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

We think they should pay €60 for being so stupid.

When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.

Michael Palin

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

Michael Palin

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

Michael Hutchence

INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used

Michael Ian Black

I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.

Ray Bradbury

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

Ray Bradbury

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

James Franco

When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

James Clavell

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

James Clavell

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

Jakaya Kikwete

Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't.

Henry Cavill

Why can men no longer be best friends? This is so stupid. Today if you show two guys being best friends they end up giving out an image that they’re gay. But guys don’t always need to be drinking beer, fighting in pubs or pulling women by the hair. They may have a deep affection.

Mary Stewart

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

Patricia Ireland

All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him

Patricia Briggs

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.

Patricia Briggs

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

Patricia Briggs

I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.

Patricia Briggs

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Pat McAfee

I consider it an honor and a privilege to play for the Indianapolis Colts, and I would never want to jeopardize it by doing something stupid.

Paddy Ashdown

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

P. J. O'Rourke

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

Mary E. Pearson

My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.

Laura Marling

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

Lance Bass

People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.

Lance Armstrong

I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty.

Laini Taylor

To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

Laini Taylor

So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.

Lisa See

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

Lisa Kudrow

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.