Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Finn

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

Neil Finn

Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

John Dos Passos

I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within the bounds of decorum . . . .I'd like to annihilate these stupid colleges of ours . . . instillers of stodginess.

John Oliver

People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.

John Calvin

Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

Joey Santiago

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Jimmy Swaggart

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

Garry Marshall

Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.

Franka Potente

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Frank Darabont

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Geena Davis

I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, "I'm not that stupid." Because it's the worst lifestyle in Hollywood.

John Conyers

I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?'

Joel Silver

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

Joel Silver

I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.

Joe Abercrombie

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Joe Biden

I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.

Joe Biden

There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.

Louis Agassiz

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

Madeleine Stowe

Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

Lynne Truss

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

Louisa May Alcott

I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

John Green

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

John Gokongwei

You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.

John Gardner

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

John Fowles

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

John Fowles

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

Linus Torvalds

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

Linus Torvalds

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Linus Torvalds

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

Linda Evans

Every minute was more exciting than the next.

Linda Evangelista

I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.

Lilith Saintcrow

I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.