Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

William J. Clinton

Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong

William Galston

It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.

William Gaddis

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Will Forte

We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't think you're weak," Jared said. "I want to guard you because you are important to me. Because you are - God, this is going to sound so stupid, I can never think of a way to say it - you are precious. I can never think of how to describe the value you have to me, because all the words for value suggest that you belong to me, and you don't.

Sarah Silverman

It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.

Sarah Palin

Well, let's see. There's-of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others. But, um

William Faulkner

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

Wietse Venema

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.

Ronald Reagan

If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.

Ronald Reagan

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Richard Dawkins

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).

Robin Williams

You need a touch of madness, just enough that you don't become stupid!

Robin Williams

I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.

Robert Cormier

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Rob Schneider

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.

Robbie Coltraine

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

Rob Thurman

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

Rob Corddry

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

Richard P. Feynman

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard P. Feynman

When you are thinking about something you don't understand you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion. The confusion is, because we are all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid trying to figure out how to put two sticks together to reach the banana, and we can't quite make it. So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, I put the two sticks together, and I reach the banana.

Richard Dawkins

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

Richelle Mead

You did what you did out of love. I can't be mad at you over that. It was stupid, but that's how love is. Do you have any idea what I'd do for you? To keep you safe?

Richelle Mead

Okay," I said, clasping her hand. "I swear it. The next time I do something stupid that might get me killed, you can come along.

Richelle Mead

what's your name?" what?" i asked, squinting at the light. your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me. you know my name." I want you to tell me." Rose. Rose Hathaway." Do you know your birthday?" Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?" Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine,

Richelle Mead

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now! We hold ourselves to higher standards than everyone else.

Richelle Mead

What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.

Richelle Mead

Dimitri: "Were you really going to attack all of us? Doing that...protecting her like that—it was very brave. Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?” Rose: "Because I'm her guardian.

Richard Ayoade

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

Timothy Leary

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

Thomas Sowell

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.