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Quotes About Stupid

Rien took her and, reminding herself that falling for strangers simply because they looked like Perceval was stupid. Although Perceval would never want her, and wouldn't holding on be stupider, still?
~ Elizabeth Bear
He didn't think it at me, I could feel his irritation, and also his recognition of the fact that meatforms did a lot of stupid thing because of our meat, and the senseless chitter of our drunkard's walk evolutionary development didn't help.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A man who is so cunning that he is sometimes stupid.
~ Elizabeth Fama
such are the dreams of youth, too gloriously stupid to realise what cannot be done. And without those dreams, how should we ever accomplish the impossible?
~ Elizabeth Kerner
But Jeptha was so amiably stupid everybody was the smartest man he ever met. It was a worldwide tie.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Christopher had married his receptionist, he'd still be here in town. Although the girl had been stupid. Olive could see why he'd passed on her. His wife was not stupid. She was pushy and determined, and mean as a bat from hell.
~ Elizabeth Strout
You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.
~ Arthur Phillips
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
When i heard on the radio that the New York Panthers had been busted, i was furious. The so-called conspiracy charges were so stupid that even a fool could see through them. The police actually had the audacity to charge them with plotting to blow up the flowers in the Botanical Garden.
~ Assata Shakur
I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that's the way I was, and I was stupid.
~ Glen Campbell
A scene, a day of shooting, can often make you feel kind of stupid and inept because your one job is to anticipate and react and know what to go for.
~ Ron Howard
I'm comfortable with myself now, and I understand how goofy I am, how stupid I can be, how emotional I can be, or how focused I can be.
~ Amber Liu
I have something stupid, like, 12 credits, to graduate.
~ Kelela
Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'
~ Melvyn Bragg
A man that rich couldn't be stupid. Or, Seema thought now, was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?
~ Gary Shteyngart
Amazingly, deconstructionists and cultural relativists were almost never stoned, which meant the crap they were spouting came to them when they were in a non-altered state, so they were invariably fairly stupid, or at least not nearly as smart as they thought they were.
~ Gene Doucette
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
~ George Berkeley
it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
~ George Eliot
it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. His school studies had not much modified that opinion...
~ George Eliot
I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.
~ Lynda Carter
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.
~ John Sandford
There is also the basic inequality of being born either with a natural talent or without one. Clever or stupid. No matter how much you try to argue against it, Dora, we are not born equal. All we can ever strive for is the equality of opportunity for those who have the ability to make the most of it.
~ Sally Wentworth
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
~ Samuel Johnson