Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ty Cobb

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

Twyla Tharp

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

William H. Gass

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

Warren Zevon

don't let us get sick, don't let us get old, don't let us get stupid, alright? just make us be brave, and make us play nice, and let us be together tonight.

Warren Zevon

You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.

Walter Martin

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.

Voltaire

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Voltaire

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Voltaire

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

William Least Heat-Moon

At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

Walter Scott

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

William Kennedy

Anger makes people stupid.

Yogi Berra

Congratulstions on breaking my record. I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

Rick Yancey

Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me." "You have just defined the very thing you denied.

Rick Yancey

That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

Rick Warren

Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

Rick Riordan

It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not...

Rick Riordan

Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.

Rick Riordan

He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).

Trevor Horn

Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.

Tracy Austin

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

Veronica Roth

She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able to walk?" Zeke is quiet for a few seconds. His eyes shift over my face, and he squints, as if weighing and measuring me. Then he turns and bends and wraps his arms around me. it's been so long since someone hugged me that I stiffen. Then I relax, and let the gesture force warmth over my body...

Veronica Roth

I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.

Veronica Roth

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

Veronica Roth

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

Vince Flynn

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

Vince Staples

Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.

Robert Gibbs

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid

Sam Walton

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult,

Robert Jordan

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

William Hazlitt

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

Wendell Berry

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

W. Somerset Maugham

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.