Famous Quotes & Sayings

Genevieve Gorder

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Jakaya Kikwete

Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't.

Henry Cavill

Why can men no longer be best friends? This is so stupid. Today if you show two guys being best friends they end up giving out an image that they’re gay. But guys don’t always need to be drinking beer, fighting in pubs or pulling women by the hair. They may have a deep affection.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

John Adams

Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.

James Richardson

So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

Kylie Bax

When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.

Libba Bray

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

Libba Bray

I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

Lester B. Pearson

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Friedrich Schiller

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Friedrich Schiller

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Jon Ronson

It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you’re perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you’re perceived to be alluringly stupid.

Jon Heder

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

Jon Glaser

There were plenty of times some writers would make some kind of stupid joke to each other and then it was on TV that night or that week.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

Louis Sachar

I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

John Cleese

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

John Cleese

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

John Brunner

There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

John Cena

Ahhh, Wade. Wade, you're just so stupid.

James Franco

When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

James Clavell

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

James Clavell

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

Napoleon Bonaparte

God! How men of letters are stupid.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Norman Mailer

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

Orson Scott Card

Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.

Orrin Hatch

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

Orson Welles

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Orson Welles

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.