Idiots Quotations

Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You're going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You'll love it. Ask my son - he tried it! He said, 'I've never seen so many idiots in all my life.'

The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

Obviously they identified us as together, as gay, to the extent that they yelled a pejorative at my partner. I'm willing to chalk the whole thing up to drunken idiots in Adams Morgan.

Only idiots repeat failure, and that's what's been happening there.

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access.

He sees everything. With his experience, these young pitchers would have to be idiots not to sit next to him every day and see what he sees.

I think this is going to help stop guys from driving like idiots out there.

Most of our parents of little leaguers don't even know the rules. They question calls and sometimes sound like idiots because they are inappropriate and don't understand.

Dreams - Dreams are like rainbows. Only idiots chase them.

They were idiots for not getting rid of me or him, every single week. It was so obvious. They thought we were caught up in each other more than the game. They were wrong.

This is the worst record I have ever seen for a young driver. Lives are being put at risk because of idiots like this.

It's just a pack of clowns, just a bunch of idiots getting together and taking the opportunity to be relatively anonymous by all wearing the same clothing, making it difficult to identify who's done what.

It was disappointing that one or two idiots got on the pitch and we should sling them out.

Everybody has idiots at their job, and those idiots are talked about when they leave the room. House just calls them idiots before they leave the room. But it's not about what House says; it's about what he does. He's heroic, but he doesn't care what people think. And those blue eyes don't hurt.

I'm going to work as hard as I can, our staff is going to work as hard as they can, ... We'll take suggestions. The people who call you idiots and all that stuff, that's not going to make me change anything. They can do that all they want because it's not going to affect the way we go about doing our jobs.

I haven't noticed any idiots here. I mean that in a good way.

By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself

The environmentalists - the self-centered bunch, the waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots that don't understand that they're leading this country into environmental disaster.

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language