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.

Steve Jobs

It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

J. D. Salinger

But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.

Jack Ma

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

Bill Taylor

If you want to create a memorable company, you have to fill your company with memorable people.

Hal Boyle

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Gypsy Rose Lee

God is love, but get it in writing.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Women power is a formidable force.

William Shakespeare

Beware the ides of March.

Kurt Vonnegut

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

Elbert Hubbard

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Dr. Seuss

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around

Donald Miller

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

Don Murray

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

Thomas Huxley

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

H. G. Wells

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

Herman Kahn

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.