Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Bosworth

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

Jane Austen

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Amy Carmichael

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Anna Faris

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

D. H. Lawrence

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

David Fincher

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

Curt Schilling

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

Andy Roddick

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

Annie Dillard

The interior life is often stupid.

Barry Gibb

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

Ray Davies

Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

Gilbert Ryle

It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

Grace Jones

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

William Shenstone

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

Richard Dawkins

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

Samuel Goldwyn

If I did that, I'd be sticking my head in a moose.

William Styron

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

Yogi Berra

The ballparks have gotten too crowded. That's why nobody goes to see the game anymore.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Stefan Molyneux

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

Angus Campbell

Despite the U.S. earnings commencing in earnest this week, the recent inability of indexes to sustain their highs has led many to believe that there is impending weakness. For new highs to be set U.S. companies will have to report superb results, far outstripping expectations and things did not get off to a great start last week.

John Pike

The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising, ... The U.S. continues to fund work in this field, despite the fact that it contravenes known laws of physics.

Ken Knutson

The stuff is there. I truly believe he's going to be in the big leagues really fast. The stuff that he has, I haven't seen at this level.

Scott Maddox

The stakes in this election are simply too high ... I have increasingly come to believe we cannot prevail if we are divided.

Peter Rodman

The stakes are enormous, the U.S. has a strategy, and we believe it's the right one.

Wendy Danielson

The spectrum of issues that a school board deals with is incredible. I believe the knowledge that I have gained over the last five years on the board is important to continue on.