Dumb Quotes - Page 33

• enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.

  Emily Carr

  God, Tree, Soul

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.56, D & M Publishers

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• As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Heart, Understanding, Voiceless

  Anzia Yezierska (1923). “Children of Loneliness”

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• Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

  Winifred Holtby

  Animal, Names, Crow

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• When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.

  Paula Fox

  People, Earth, Cyclones

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• I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

  Phil Robertson

  Intelligent, People, Guy

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• There's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of character I've done before: He's kind of dumb and he's kind of arrogant, and a little seedy. A little coke-y. He's gotten into the cocaine or he's had too much coffee. It's been pretty fun. Not all the songs are like that but it sort of creeps in there.

  Tim Heidecker

  Song, Fun, Coffee

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.

  Sarah Silverman

  Clever, Heart, Political

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I believe if I should die,
  And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie
  Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains,
  The folded orbs would open at thy breath,
  And from its exile in the Isles of Death
  Life would come gladly back along my veins.

  Mary Ashley Townsend

  Death, Lying, Believe

  Mary Ashley Townsend, Ralph Lee Woodward (2001). “Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend”, p.9, University of Alabama Press

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• Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Men, Doors, Speech

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• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  Dan Futterman

  Silly, Shooting, Territory

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 13, 1998.

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• Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
  Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
  And marching single in an endless file,
  Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
  To each they offer gifts after his will,
  Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
  I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
  Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
  Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
  Turned and departed silent. I too late
  Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daughter, Morning, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Days”

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• I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.

  Mara Wilson

  Cutting, Athletic, Trying

  "Mara Wilson: Hollywood child star turned New York storyteller". Interview with Katie Rogers, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I've never really taken myself seriously as an actor, It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be really dumb. I think they think anyone who has done teen movies is just an idiot. I don't know, maybe I am. Some of the best actors, if you talk to them, they're not the smartest people in the world.

  Robert Pattinson

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and its just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Giving, Want

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• People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

  Adam Carolla

  Stupid, Successful, People

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• Metal musicians say dumb things sometimes.

  Rob Halford

  Musician, Sometimes, Metals

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• A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.

  Lorrie Moore

  Girl, Voice, Would Be

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Who Will Run the Frog Hospital”, p.6, Vintage

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• I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Honor, Kind, Reason

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

  John Green

  Heaven, Intellectual, Gus

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.752, Penguin

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• Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

  Garry Trudeau

  Political, Information, Enough

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• For the people who don't know, my character could described, in a nutshell, as the bar dumb-dumb.

  Charlie Day

  Character, People, Bars

  Source: movieweb.com

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• We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smart, Opportunity, Dollars

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Civilization, Aliens, Granted

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

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• The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

  Dennis Miller

  Smart, People, Fiscal Policy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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