Dumb Quotations

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

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

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.

TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.

Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.

I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

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.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious.

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

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.

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

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.

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

I want to work on projects that I feel passionate about and do things that are fun and challenging. I would love to do a live musical. I'm not interested in doing the same thing over and over or the fame and exposure that comes with it. When people keep doing that, they just end up doing the same dumb stuff again and again.

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

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.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning.

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

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.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.

Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.