Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Zappa

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Frank Herbert

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

George H. W. Bush

The Democrats just want to ram it down my ear with a victory

Jim Butcher

We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.

Jim Butcher

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

Jim Butcher

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

Jim Butcher

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate stupidity.

Jesse Ventura

People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.

Jesse Ventura

You can't legislate against stupidity.

Jesse Ventura

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

Jesse Ventura

If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.

H. P. Lovecraft

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

George Herbert

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Molly Ivins

The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

Milos Forman

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

Keira Knightley

I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I'm perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

Karin Slaughter

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Karin Slaughter

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Julian Barnes

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.

Julian Barnes

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.

Ken Kesey

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

Kato Kaelin

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

Kris Kristofferson

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

Kirstie Alley

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

Kim Harrison

God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron)

Kim Harrison

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

Kim Harrison

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.

Kevin Pollak

The law against sodomy is trying to stop homosexual men from enjoying themselves. That's what the law is all about. But this is stupid. What do you do according to the law? You find two men enjoying themselves sexually. You arrest them and throw them in... prison? That outta do it.

Ken Follett

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anything he could say, that's the funny thing. It was all the stupid, desperately optimistic, condescending things he didn't say that kept me alive; all the compassion and wamrth I felt from him that could not have been said; all the intelligence, competence, and time he put into it; and his granite belief that mine was a life worth living.

Kris Allen

I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.