Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyril Connolly

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

Cyril Connolly

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

Daniel Negreanu

In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

Cornelia Funke

Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

Cornelia Funke

And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.

Cormac McCarthy

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Clifford Stoll

We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

Dwight L. Moody

If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

Courtney Love

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

Courtney Love

It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

David Cronenberg

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Daryl Hannah

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

David Zucker

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

David Lloyd George

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

David Hare

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Curt Schilling

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

Daniel Tosh

Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg the world to stuff the ballot.

Daniel Tosh

I’m a Bad Test Taker…you mean you’re stupid?

Daniel Tosh

Sure I may look adjusted, but I can't function in normal society because most of you are too stupid.

Dallas Willard

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

Dallas Willard

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

David Chase

The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

David Byrne

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

Dave Matthews

I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.

Dave Eggers

In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?

David Limbaugh

Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid.

David Levithan

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

David Levithan

We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him.

David Gemmell

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

Louis C. K.

I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.

Louis C. K.

If you do something and people think you're stupid, just go for crazy. You get more respect that way because nobody likes stupid people.

Orson Scott Card

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.