Idiot Quotes - page 5

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. (Adam Duritz)
Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose. View quote
Blake Edwards
I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot. View quote
Calvin Harris
People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.' View quote
Chris Farley
People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not. View quote
Colin Greenwood
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot. View quote
Leo Durocher
To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.' View quote
Lena Olin
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. View quote
Martin Van Creveld
You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way. View quote
Nia Vardalos
Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential. View quote
Nicole Sullivan
Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me. (Pauly Shore)
I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time. View quote
Sally Kellerman
People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about. View quote
Steve Marriott
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. View quote
Samuel Horsley
who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn't know how things played out. View quote
Daniel Handler
I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic! View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
Sometimes I think,” he told Tex, "that Th'Wing thinks that I am an idiot studying hard to become a moron-but flunking the course. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I carried out my purpose: War and Peace, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and so forth. Would you believe it? Something is gained in translation; the originals are even more depressing and soporific than translations. I'm not sure what purpose Russian fiction has, but it can't be entertainment. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
"Th' immortal mind of mortal man!" we hear yon loud-lunged Zealot cry; Whose mind but means his sum of thought, an essence of atomic "I." Thought is the work of brain and nerve, in small-skulled idiot poor and mean; In sickness sick, in sleep asleep, and dead when Death lets drop the scene. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
"Art is an optimist,” Nadia said to Maya as they walked on. "Art is an idiot,” Maya replied. (Kim Stanley Robinson)
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result is that whether a person is fit or unfit for marriage, he or she still marries and reproduces. An idiot or a simpleton is often married off to an old widower, ostensibly to take care of him in his old age. If this is not possible, backward relatives are paired off in marriage. These people survive, reproduce and propagate their species. The cumulative effect of this can be left to the imagination. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot. View quote
Lucy Lawless
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it. View quote
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