Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Alan Watts

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.

Alan Price

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

Alan Moore

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty

Alan Moore

I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me.

Alan Bradley

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Alain Prost

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

Chris Colfer

I'm allergic to stupidity.

Chris Christie

Maybe because I'm from New Jersey, I just have this kind of plain language hangup. But I would make very clear - I would not talk to Vladimir Putin. In fact, I would talk to Vladimir Putin a lot. But I'd say to him, "Listen, Mr. President, there's a no-fly zone in Syria; you fly in, it applies to you." And yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if in fact they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now.

Chris Christie

Let's go to Russia. She [Hillary Clinton] went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them that stupid symbolic reset button.

Chloe Sevigny

I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.

Chinua Achebe

An angry man is always a stupid man.

Chinua Achebe

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Edith Wharton

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

Eartha Kitt

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

David Ricardo

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

David Henry Hwang

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

David Hilbert

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

David Hume

He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately have the most tragical conclusion, and most terminate in destruction to the greater number, and in a total dissolution of society to the rest.

David Hume

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

David Hume

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Dinkins

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

David Brooks

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

Ben Stiller

A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

Beatrice Dalle

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

Bear Grylls

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

Barney Frank

The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.

Audrey Tautou

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

Arthur Phillips

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

Arnold Bennett

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

Arnold Bennett

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.