Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sullivan

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Curt Johnston

Unfortunately, it seems like there are always winners and losers with this kind of decision. They'll probably write letters to the editor, tell us how stupid we are, and tell us we don't listen to the public.

Chris Stein

We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.

Samuel Lopez

We're just looking out for the kids. We want to make sure they don't do anything stupid and nothing happens to them.

William Shakespeare

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

Alan Chadwick

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

Alan Bishop

The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.

Alan Bradley

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Alan Bennett

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

Yvonne Williams

When I was a child, I'd go down to see the water after a storm, just to see it settling down, for reassurance,

David Wyss

Usually coming out of a recession, you get a real spurt in productivity, which we got, but now things are settling down to what by historical standards are still very strong gains in productivity.

Martti Ahtisaari

With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.

Kara Cook

We're just now settling down. It's a lot of fun.

Tom Renney

We're a work in progress and we're scrambling and scratching and clawing to kind of be what we were so proud to be earlier. And we're close. We're getting there sort of in fits and starts. But it's a matter of settling down, calming down and believing in everything that we're capable of doing within our system and we'll be fine.

Roderick Wilmont

We started settling for a lot of jumpers. Jumpers that we usually hit we weren't hitting tonight, and that killed us.

Mark Cuban

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

Mark Cuban

Never settle. There is no need to rush.

Amber Frey

As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn't yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.

Rhys Ifans

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

Mayor Stewart

It is idiotic to prohibit people from participating in government. You are taking a population of our city and telling them that they can't serve to help our city. There is no good rationale behind it. I don't understand it.

Bill Clinton

It is idiotic to contemplate a future that is anything other than one of cooperation between China and the U.S. for future prosperity. But on the other hand, it will be foolish not to prepare for the worst.

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

C. S. Lewis

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

Charlie Hunter

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

Andy Borowitz

Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public.