Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cindy Sherman

I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem to be falling for it.

Chuck Palahniuk

Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

Chuck Palahniuk

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

Alfred de Vigny

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

Alfie Kohn

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

Amy Sedaris

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

Amy Tan

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.

Amiri Baraka

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Andy Samberg

I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.

Anais Nin

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Michael Bloomberg

You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

Pat Metheny

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

John Podhoretz

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

Philip Roth

Let's hope the first comes first.

Evanna Lynch

It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

Christopher Anderson

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

Jerry Lawler

If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers.

Erica Jong

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Gary Snyder

That's the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

Norman Vincent Peale

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

Larry Beinfest

It's unusual. I can't remember it ever happening. This is my 16th spring. We just want to make sure that he's OK.

Kiki Smith

The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.

Patti Smith

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

Julia Leigh

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

Judd Apatow

I literally cannot remember one joke.

Paul Ford

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

Padma Lakshmi

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.