Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Blunt

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

James Blunt

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

Jacques Barzun

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Jackie Chan

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

Isaac Marion

I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.

Isaac Marion

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

Isaac Asimov

It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.

Neal Shusterman

This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?

Neal Shusterman

You are so obtuse!" Brontë says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.

Miles Davis

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

Marcel Proust

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

Marcel Proust

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Joseph Addison

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Joseph Addison

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Joseph Addison

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

Joseph Addison

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.

Jordin Sparks

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Joni Mitchell

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Kevin Smith

It's not like someday my kid's gonna be standing over my grave, and somebody's gonna hang her a folded flag and say, 'You know what? This is 'cause he did 24 hours straight on Twitter.' But it's just one of those little personal victories, like, 'I wonder if I can do this.' And I did it. A stupid goal, but I accomplished it. Life's all about...for me, at least...having very stupid achievable goals. That way, you always feel like a winner.

Kevin Spacey

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

Kelley Armstrong

When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.

Kelley Armstrong

One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

Kelley Armstrong

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Joe Torre

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

Joe Lieberman

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

Joaquin Andujar

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

Joaquin Phoenix

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

Joanne Harris

Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.