Dumb famous quotes
04-09-2025
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
-- A. E. Housman -
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
-- A. O. Scott -
I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
-- Aaron Allston -
We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
-- Aaron McGruder -
It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?
-- Aaron Swartz -
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 -
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
-- Adam McKay -
And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.
-- Adam Parfrey -
I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.
-- Adam Sandler -
The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!
-- Alan Grayson -
Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.
-- Alan Minter -
People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.
-- Alex Jones -
Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
-- Alf Landon -
Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?
-- Alfred Austin -
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.
-- Amy Lee -
I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.
-- Andre Dawson -
Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public.
-- Andy Borowitz -
The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.
-- Andy Hobsbawm -
I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.
-- Angie Harmon -
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
-- Anita Baker -
If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them.
-- Ann Coulter -
We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.
-- Ann Romney -
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
-- Anna Sewell -
It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
-- Antoine Fuqua -
The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.
-- Anton Newcombe -
As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.
-- Anzia Yezierska -
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
-- Aristotle -
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is
-- Arnold Rothstein -
When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!
-- Arthur Guiterman -
You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk
-- Assata Shakur -
I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go?
-- Barack Obama -
I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.
-- Barack Obama -
I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.
-- Barack Obama -
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
-- Barack Obama -
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
-- Barry Diller -
The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
-- Ben Casnocha -
I take them 8 to 80, dumb, crippled, and crazy. Crisp and clean with no caffeine, and a pair of spandex or either tight jeans.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
-- Bill Wyman -
I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.
-- Bob Gill -
And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end
-- Bob Holness -
She was always young at heart, kind of dumb, kind of smart, and I loved her so.
-- Bobby Goldsboro -
I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's hardly going to do my career any good, is it?
-- Boy George -
I’ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. I’ll wait until you think I’ve forgotten today. I’ll wait until you think it was just a dumb guild rat’s threat. After I’m a master, you’ll jump at shadows for a while. But after you jump a dozen times and I’m not there, you won’t jump just once, and that’s when I’ll be there. I don’t care if you kill me at the same time. I’ll trade my life for yours.
-- Brent Weeks -
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
-- Brian Setzer -
I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.
-- Britney Spears -
With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.
-- Bruce Bartlett -
Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.
-- Bruce Paltrow -
Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.
-- Bum Phillips -
The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
-- Carl Everett -
Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant.
-- Carl Pfeiffer -
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
-- Carl Sagan -
I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.
-- Carmen Policy -
Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.
-- Catherine Gilbert Murdock -
To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from god.
-- Celine Dion -
Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.
-- Chamillionaire -
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.
-- Charles Churchill -
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
-- Charles de Lint -
I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.
-- Charles Manson -
Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.
-- Charles Shackleford -
He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.
-- Charlie Daniels -
For the people who don't know, my character could described, in a nutshell, as the bar dumb-dumb.
-- Charlie Day -
He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.
-- Charlie Higson -
It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.
-- Charlie Munger -
I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.
-- Cher -
Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.
-- Chris Rock -
I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
-- Christina Aguilera -
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself
-- Christina Grimmie -
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I do not miss ITV, God no! Have you seen ITV lately?
-- Cilla Black -
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.
-- Clint Eastwood -
It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks
-- Colin Baker -
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face
-- Cory Doctorow -
Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.
-- Curt Schilling -
If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
-- Cyndi Lauper -
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
-- D.B.C. Pierre -
The similarities between me and my father are different.
-- Dale Berra -
Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?
-- Dalton Trumbo -
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
-- Dan Duva -
We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
-- Dan Futterman -
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
-- Dan Quayle -
Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?
-- Dana Gioia -
Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
-- Danica McKellar -
None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
-- Daniel Johns -
People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.
-- Daniel Keyes -
The ***** contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.
-- Dannii Minogue
