Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Sand

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

George Sand

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

Jenna Fischer

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

Jeffrey Archer

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

Jerry Falwell

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Jeremy Clarkson

If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

Jennifer Capriati

Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.

Jeff Smith

Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!

Jeff Goodell

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jhonen Vasquez

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!

Grover Norquist

They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.

Goose Gossage

These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of phony stuff. What does it mean when you really stop and think about it's kind of stupid.

Goldie Hawn

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

Gisele Bundchen

I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, 'She can just be a model because she can just be a model - she's dumb and she can't do anything else.'

Harper Lee

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Halle Berry

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Gregory David Roberts

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Iggy Pop

I wasn't so stupid that I didn't realize the implications of what they were saying. In my live work I was going for the quick thrill, rather than spending time concentrating on my voice. I figured I'd get on, make as many quick movement as possible, dance my ass off for five minutes, move into the insult portion of the evening, and then, at the end, create some kind of chaos until the 55 minutes were up.

Iain Banks

But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you. If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.

Iain Banks

My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

Iain Banks

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Jean Cocteau

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Jean Cocteau

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

Jean de la Bruyere

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

George Carlin

Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

George Carlin

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

George Carlin

No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.

George Carlin

The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash.

George Carlin

Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.

George Carlin

If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.

George Carlin

Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.

George Carlin

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.