Dimwits Quotes

• In like a dimwit, out like a light.

  Walt Kelly

  Light

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• A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

  Stephen King

  Mean, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “The Mouse on the Mile”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.

  Shannon Hale

  Clever, Years, Thrones

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.353, A&C Black

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• I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.

  George Meyer

  Religious, Wonderful Friends, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  Don DeLillo

  Epic, Cities, People

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Buddhist, Book

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

  Charles Finch

  Paris, Important, Youth

  Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.167, Macmillan

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• Why couldn't she have gotten another Edger or some dimwit from the Broken for a passenger? No, she got Lord Leather Pants here.

  Ilona Andrews

  Leather Pants, Broken, Lord

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.47, NYLA

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