Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Shusterman

What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?

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.

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.

Johnny Depp

Things go wrong for me, all the time, with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.

Johnny Depp

Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.

John Travolta

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

John Stuart Mill

Stupidity is much the same all the world over

John Stuart Mill

Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

John Stuart Mill

I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

John Stuart Mill

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

Kylie Bax

When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.

Libba Bray

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

Libba Bray

I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

Lester B. Pearson

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Friedrich Schiller

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Genevieve Gorder

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

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.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.