Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

Babe Ruth

I'm only going one way.

Brian Bosworth

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

Carson McCullers

Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

Alan Keyes

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

Al Gore

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

Al Gore

A leapord never changes his stripes.

Charles Kettering

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Charles Churchill

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Andy Borowitz

Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public.

Mia Kirshner

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

Dan Buenning

Maybe we're just too dumb to know we shouldn't be doing this. And we really don't care.

Juan Samuel

Some of the people called the guy dumb and stupid and said they didn't think he was going to make it.

Adam Morrison

You know, if we would have lost, I don't think I would have been the one complaining about what people said. It's a very emotional game. You guys have got to be dumb if you don't think they were talking trash when they were up nine with nine minutes to go.

Christopher Hitchens

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

Graham Greene

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Graham Greene

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Howard Dean

We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.

Pat Taylor

As a result of the campaign, we've done 27 million dollars of construction on campus.

David Anderson

Prices are rising because of expectations. If we have it in our heads that oil is going to do well and we start putting dollars into it, then the prices will iron out.

Tom Barrett

Quite candidly, I think there are sufficient dollars to do both.

Chris Patterson

Performance incentives focus education dollars on effective teaching and student learning.

Bob Fox

Think about the people that have maybe 100 horses. That's thousands of dollars for them this year.

Stephen Wood

This is taking dollars from Wal-Mart and giving it to Shell. It's shifting the money. It's not increasing inflation.

Alex Knott

Your local taxpayer dollars are being used to employ a lobbyist as a middleman to go out and get your federal tax dollars. It's a situation that's increasing.

Brian Jacques

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

Bruce Kovner

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose