Stupid famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
-- A. E. Housman -
There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.
-- A.L. Kennedy -
Tomer: “What's this?†Cabinet: “Wt's ths?†Wedge: “Cabinet.†Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.†Cabinet: “...ts tlkng†Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.†Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.†Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.
-- Aaron Allston -
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
When you have success on the field, you're more popular and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say. You're still going to make mistakes from time to time, but you represent an even greater population and people are that much more looking for you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or fall down or say something really stupid that's going to get you in trouble.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson -
I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.
-- Abbi Glines -
He isn’t like us Low. You know that right.†I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didn’t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. “I’m not stupid Cage.
-- Abbi Glines -
Anyone who meets you and doesn't want to get to know you and be part of your life is stupid. I saw it when I was just a kid." "No. You thought I was a vampire and you wanted to be my friend so I wouldn't eat you." "Well, that too. But I found out soon enough you weren't a blood sucker and I still licked you.
-- Abbi Glines -
You think this necklace is a tailsman?" "Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.
-- Abbi Glines -
The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Educated: no. Stupid: yes. And when I say "stupid," I mean stupid fresh.
-- Ad-Rock -
People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.
-- Adam Carolla -
I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.
-- Adam Duritz -
We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.
-- Adam Rex -
I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.
-- Adam Sandler -
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
-- Adam Smith -
It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
-- Adele -
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?
-- Adolf Hitler -
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
-- Adolf Hitler -
All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
-- Adolf Hitler -
A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
-- Aeschylus -
It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.
-- Ahmed Best -
Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu
-- Ai Yazawa -
I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
-- Aidan Quinn -
I don't care. I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview--they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.
-- Aidan Quinn -
The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
-- Aimee Mann -
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
-- Al Gore -
We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.
-- 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 -
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 -
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 -
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
-- Alain de Botton -
I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
-- Alain Prost -
Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
-- Alan Bennett -
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.
-- Alan Cumming -
It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.
-- Alan Keyes -
I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me.
-- Alan Moore -
I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.
-- Alan Price -
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.
-- Alan Watts -
I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
-- Albert Brooks -
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
-- Albert Camus -
I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?
-- Albert Camus -
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
-- Albert Einstein -
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.
-- Albert Einstein -
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
-- Albert Einstein -
Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.
-- Albert Ellis -
Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.
-- Albert Gubay -
Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.
-- Alden Ehrenreich -
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The majority falls prey to the delusion popular in some circles that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth born of experience is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.
-- Alex Kozinski -
Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.
-- Alex Linder -
Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen.And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.
-- Alexander Rybak -
One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.
-- Alexander Theroux -
One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.
-- Alfie Kohn -
What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
-- Alfred de Musset -
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance
-- Alfred de Vigny -
To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
-- Alfred Molina -
When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'
-- Ali MacGraw -
I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
-- Ali MacGraw -
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.
-- Alice Meynell -
so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend .
-- Alicia Witt -
Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of your life saying ‘I’d love a cigarette.’ That’s what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.
-- Allen Carr -
I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid
-- Allison Mackie -
Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid things on prom night? I was really going to have to investigate this further, I decided
-- Ally Carter -
Hale, stop it.†Kat reached out and grabbed his arm. “You are many things, but stupid isn't one of them.†“I'm too close.†“You don't get it, do you? Being close is good. Caring is good. I love that you're emotional and passionate and can't turn these things off.†“It makes me a bad thief.†“It makes you a good person.
-- Ally Carter -
How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.
-- Amanda Hocking -
When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.
-- Amanda Palmer -
If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love.
-- Amanda Peet -
One stupid act of some stupid extremist puts us all down.
-- Amani -
It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.
-- Amarillo Slim -
Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.
-- Amber Heard -
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart.' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
-- Amelie Nothomb -
I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
-- Amiri Baraka -
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
-- Amy Adams -
I was blonde most of my life and I had to dye my hair for a role. I couldn’t believe the difference when I went red. I just felt ‘wow, I’m home’. It’s great. You do something stupid when you’re blonde and you’re dumb. Do something stupid when you’re red and you’re a character.
-- Amy Adams -
Nobody looks stupid when they are having fun.
-- Amy Poehler
