Idiot Quotes - Page 21

• I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

  Sherman Alexie

  Sky, Telescopes, Study

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.68, Random House

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• I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.

  Michael Chabon

  Son, Cutting, Ideas

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• Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.

  Henry Miller

  Thinking, Bridges, World

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Music, Song, Thinking

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.159, Bantam

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• By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Running, Risk, Becoming

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• I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Winning, Political, Voting

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Land, Doe

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• That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

  Alan Moore

  Marketing, Phrases, Bigs

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• I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

  C. S. Lewis

  May, Lion Witch Wardrobe

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dark, Devil, Not Afraid

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• Even the idiot may have a message for us

  Henry Miller

  May, Messages

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupidity, Rationalize

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.291, Macmillan

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• You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care.

  Terry Pratchett

  Care, Months, Messages

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• You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Thinking, May, Fool

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• When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Real, Cat

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Eye

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.645, Velvet Element Books

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• Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

  Isak Dinesen

  Thinking, Littles, Lord

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• It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rain, Atlanta, Sky

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• I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.

  Tamora Pierce

  Sparrows, Kind, Swear

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.736, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

  Saul Bellow

  Sadness, Solitary Life, Long

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "The Story of My Life".

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• While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

  Carson McCullers

  Running, Time, World

  "The Mortgaged Heart".

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• To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame

  Alfred de Vigny

  Men, Together, Coincidence

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• No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

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