Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aidan Quinn

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

Bo Burnham

I'd really love to make something that doesn't involve my stupid face.

Bo Burnham

I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.

Billy Idol

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

Bill Peterson

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

Bill Parcells

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.

Jane Austen

Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

Jane Austen

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

Jane Austen

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Jane Austen

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Jane Austen

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

James Woods

Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need now. He's not as stupid as everyone thinks. I like the guy.

Jason Alexander

People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

Janet Jackson

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

Bryant H. McGill

The nightmare spirit of control has always been, and is, profoundly stupid.

Carroll O'Connor

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Carson McCullers

Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

Alan Keyes

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

Alan Cumming

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

Alain de Botton

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

Al Gore

Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996. ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.

Al Gore

It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

Al Gore

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

Al Gore

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

Al Gore

A leapord never changes his stripes.

Al Gore

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

Charles Kettering

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Charles Churchill

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Charles Barkley

You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.

Blaise Pascal

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Billie Joe Armstrong

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.