Famous Quotes & Sayings

Molly Ivins

The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

Milos Forman

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

Keira Knightley

I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I'm perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

Karin Slaughter

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Karin Slaughter

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Julian Barnes

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.

Julian Barnes

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.

Ken Kesey

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

Kato Kaelin

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

Kris Kristofferson

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

Kirstie Alley

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

Kim Harrison

God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron)

Kim Harrison

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

Kim Harrison

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.

Kevin Pollak

The law against sodomy is trying to stop homosexual men from enjoying themselves. That's what the law is all about. But this is stupid. What do you do according to the law? You find two men enjoying themselves sexually. You arrest them and throw them in... prison? That outta do it.

Irvine Welsh

Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.

Idries Shah

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Hunter Hayes

I've got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we've got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that's how big the show we're putting on is.

Glynis Johns

Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group theyre rather stupid.

Giorgio Moroder

I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.

Gerard Depardieu

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

J. K. Rowling

Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.

J. K. Rowling

We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.

J. K. Rowling

Ginny, listen . . . I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?

J. K. Rowling

Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

J. K. Rowling

My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.

J. K. Rowling

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

J. K. Rowling

All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron.

J. K. Rowling

You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

J. K. Rowling

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

H. L. Mencken

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

H. L. Mencken

Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one thing to excess; they know nothing else. Pursuing facts too doggedly and unimaginatively, they miss all the charming things that are not facts. ... Too much learning, like too little learning, is an unpleasant and dangerous thing.

H. L. Mencken

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.