Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Peter Drucker

Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

Peter Andre

Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking.

Penn Jillette

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

Penn Jillette

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

Penn Jillette

Freedom means the right to be stupid.

Penn Jillette

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

Penn Jillette

We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.

Penn Jillette

Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

Penn Jillette

I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.

Marlee Matlin

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

Megan Mullally

That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid

In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.

Maureen Johnson

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I am messaging you to say that I love you, and that you're completely wrong about me thinking you're stupid. I always thought you could teach me things. I was always waiting. You're not like the others. You say things that no one expects you to. You think you're stupid. You want to be stupid. But you're someone people could learn from.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

Matt Reeves

There's a thing when you're always working on something you really love, and this one we loved so much, it feels like you have a secret, and you can't wait to let people in on the secret. But at the same time, there's that moment where, "What if they get the secret and they think the secret is stupid?!"

Maya Angelou

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Matt Smith

Be brave. Don't be afraid to be stupid.

Mario Balotelli

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

Marilyn Manson

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

Marilyn Manson

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.

Marilyn Manson

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Michael Haneke

What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.

Meles Zenawi

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

Mason Cooley

Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

Mason Cooley

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

Mason Cooley

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Mason Cooley

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Mason Cooley

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

Mary Augusta Ward

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

Martin Walker

Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary society. As Janet Malcolm said in another context, 'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.'

Michael Moore

There is no terrorist threat. Yes, there have been horrific acts of terrorism and, yes, there will be acts of terrorism again. But that doesn't mean that there's some kind of massive terrorist threat.