Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

P. J. O'Rourke

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

Ozzy Osbourne

Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.

Ozzy Osbourne

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

Ozzy Osbourne

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Matt Groening

The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.

Matt Groening

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

Mary Wortley Montagu

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

Mark Helprin

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

Mark Haddon

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

Marisa Tomei

I'm always dying to do more comedic parts, I love it when I get to do something really overblown like Crazy, Stupid, Love that can just be silly. There have always been hilarious women, but I love that they are getting more and more attention.

Paul Rodriguez

What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.

Paul Rudd

Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.

Paul Goodman

Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves. ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted.

Paul Goodman

Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.

Paul Auster

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Patrick Marber

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

Patrick Marber

That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.

Pat Burns

After referees negated a line change that led to Tampa Bay"s winning goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs: After all these years in the league, am I that stupid that I would put four forwards and one defenseman in a 3-3 tie, in the third period? I think everybody that knows me here knows I"m not that stupid. I might be halfway stupid, but not that stupid.

Pat Buchanan

Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.

Julia Roberts

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.

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.

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.

Kim Harrison

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

Kim Harrison

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