Famous Quotes & Sayings

Poul Anderson

There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.

Poppy Z. Brite

Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.

Pierre Salinger

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

NeNe Leakes

I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

Neil Young

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

Mike Huckabee

[America has to import so many workers because] for the last 35 years we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce.

Mike Huckabee

However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

Nevil Shute

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

Newt Gingrich

When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate, you know we're not talking about health reform, we're not talking about energy policy, we're not talking about balancing the budget. And you know, it's fairly stupid.

Newt Gingrich

The Big Trump is a historic figure. The Big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination. The Big Trump is creating issues that make the establishment very uncomfortable. The Little Trump frankly gets out - is stupid. I mean, that comment just then is dumb. And I don't defend him when he wanders off; I've told him over and over.

John Ashcroft

I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.

Giacomo Casanova

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Georgia O'Keeffe

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself ... I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Gerald R. Ford

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

Gerald R. Ford

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

Jim Jarmusch

Stupid f***ing white man.

Jim Davidson

People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.

Jim Cramer

Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away

Jim DeMint

Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.

Jesse Eisenberg

I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'

Jesse Eisenberg

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

Jeremy Paxman

It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.

Jeremy Rifkin

The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.

Jenny Holzer

Stupid people shouldn’t breed.

Jenny Holzer

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

Glenn Beck

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

Glenn Beck

Soros and the Tides Foundation have been trying to indoctrinate our kids. Do you remember that stupid what was the name of that film that they did? [clip comes up on monitor] There it is, The Story of Stuff .

Harry Stack Sullivan

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

Hank Johnson

My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize

Frank Zappa

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.