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Quotes About Dumb

There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.
~ Elton John
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.
~ Jack Black
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
~ Walter Raleigh
Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!
~ Oliver Gaspirtz
He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
~ Eugene McCarthy
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
~ Eugene McCarthy
Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
~ David Byrne
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
The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.
~ Sarah Silverman
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
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I think how tan a person is, is directly proportionate to how dumb they are.
~ Natasha Leggero
I'm an animal! he exulted. I'm a dumb, stupid animal and I'm going to drink!
~ Richard Matheson
I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
~ Rick Riordan
Okay, I said. Just a normal afternoon and two normal people. She nodded. And so...hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh? Oh... I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. Um...
~ Rick Riordan
Cacus." I'd had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff.
~ Rick Riordan
Piper McLean, [Annabeth] grumbled, that was without a doubt the dumbest risk I've ever seen anyone take, and I date a dumb risk-taker.
~ Rick Riordan
The dumb little fuck was supposed to be so goddamn sensitive, how come he couldn't figure it out? All he had to do to make me like him was need me. All he had to do to make Arty like him was drop dead.
~ Katherine Dunn
One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas
~ Kelley Armstrong
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
~ Thomas Brooks
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.
~ Francis Quarles
It's the price you pay for being dumb enough to feel secure in your life.
~ Alison Gaylin
Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement ahead of academic achievement. We spoil and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act spoiled and pampered as adults.
~ Jason Whitlock