Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. H. Auden

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

Tyra Banks

Love is an excuse to be stupid

Robertson Davies

Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?

Robertson Davies

Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

Robert Pattinson

Only for practical reasons. To find out if I said something stupid in an interview. So I can limit the damage.

Robert Pattinson

I’m just trying to not be in stupid gossip magazines, basically, and I think the best way to do it is never be photographed ever. As I get older, I just get more and more and more self-conscious about getting photographed. I don’t know why. I’ve done it too many times and now I feel like everyone can see through me.

Vita Sackville-West

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.

Saul Bellow

I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

Sarah Dessen

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

Sarah Dessen

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

Sarah Dessen

It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.

Sarah Dessen

it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics...

Ronnie O'Sullivan

People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.

Roger Waters

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Roger Ebert

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

Robin McKinley

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.

William Faulkner

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

Wietse Venema

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.

Ronald Reagan

If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.

Ronald Reagan

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Wiz Khalifa

Do you know why some people feel jealousy from me? Because I don't like to comment back on their stupid remarks.

Winston Churchill

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

Wilson Pickett

I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.

Zola Jesus

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

Zach Galifianakis

But comedy is like music, it appeals to some people. Some people like Creed, those people are usually pretty stupid. But they probably also like Carrot Top. I would say that they're part of the same ilk.

Zach Galifianakis

There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

Zara Phillips

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Zach Braff

Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.

Ty Burrell

The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got hugely lucky.