Idiot Quotes - Page 23

• I said, "Do you think she thinks it's me?" Jas said, "Well, it's pretty conclusive, isn't it? She said 'the most sniveling idiot I have ever come across.'" I said, "I didn't know that YOU have been seeing Masimo. Tom the Slug King is going to be very upset.

  Louise Rennison

  Kings, Thinking, Upset

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• ...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

  Frantz Fanon

  World, Burden, Said

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.9, Pluto Press

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• I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn’t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.

  Amanda Hocking

  People

  Amanda Hocking (2013). “The Trylle Trilogy”, p.308, Macmillan

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• No more watching that show Small England or whatever it's called where those two idiots dress up as 'laydees'. It's a bad influence.

  David Walliams

  Two, Dresses, England

  David Walliams (2014). “The World of David Walliams: 6 Book Collection (The Boy in the Dress, Mr Stink, Billionaire Boy, Gangsta Granny, Ratburger, Demon Dentist) PLUS Exclusive Extras”, p.80, HarperCollins UK

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• Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Father, Intelligent

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.144, Faber & Faber

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• It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Team, Katniss

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• You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Fall, First Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stupid, Coffee, Dirty

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• And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

  Suzanne Collins

  Here I Am, Games, Tree

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• He doesn’t scowl, but his mouth is so tense that I know he’s angry with me. 'Don’t be an idiot,' he says. 'An idiot?' Is he talking about the blanket? 'You were lying.

  Veronica Roth

  Lying, Talking, Mouths

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• It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't really care if you're acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them.

  Markus Zusak

  Old Friends, Acting, Care

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.102, Scholastic Inc.

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• Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

  Christopher Paolini

  Life Is Too Short, Fighting, Way

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• What I’m sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I’m sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don’t imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you’d had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.

  Rachel Cohn

  Sorry, Crazy, Nice

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Y’all might as well come on out,” I said. “I know you’re there. I can smell you.” “Smell me? But I just took a shower this morning!” an indignant voice drifted out of the shadows. There was a loud sound, like someone was getting smacked upside the head. Then another voice let out a low mutter. “Shut up, idiot.

  Jennifer Estep

  Morning, Voice, Smell

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “By a Thread”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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• I think he came to die with me," I say. I clamp my hand over my mouth to stifle a sob. If I can keep breathing, I can stop crying. I didn't need or want him to die with me. I wanted to keep him safe. What an idiot, I think, but my heart isn't in it. "That's ridiculous," he says. "That doesn't make any sense. He's eighteen; he'll find another girlfriend once you're dead. And he's stupid if he doesn't know that." Tears run down my cheeks, hot at first and then cold. I close my eyes. "If you think that's what it's about..." I swallow another sob. "...you're the stupid one.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Girlfriend, Stupid

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• So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?" "What?" Again that glare. "Go away. Stop being an idiot. I don't even know you." "You're healing my little brother Bowie." "Yeah, that doesn't make us friends, kid." "So no moonlight." "Are you retarded?" "Sunrise? I could get up early." "Go away." "Sunset tomorrow?" -Sanjit & Lana

  Michael Grant

  Brother, Healing, Sunset

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• Solemnity is the shield of idiots

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Stupidity, Shields, Solemnity

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• Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

  R.L. LaFevers

  Men, Two, Flesh

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• He shifted his weight, throwing his good leg off the bed as if he were going to try to stand. “What are you doing?” I demanded through the tears. “Lie down, you idiot, you’ll hurt yourself!” I jumped to my feet and pushed his good shoulder down with two hands. He surrendered, leaning back with a gasp of pain, but he grabbed me around my waist and pulled me down on the bed, against his good side. I curled up there, trying to stifle the silly sobs against his hot skin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Pain, Lying

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• Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Cynical, Sometimes

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• The last 10 to 20 years you’d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because that’s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?

  Dave McClure

  Kings, Stupid, Thinking

  "Dave McClure is ripping VCs again: They’re f***ing arrogant and stupid a**holes" By John Cook, www.geekwire.com. August 22, 2012.

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• We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.

  Ehud Barak

  Reality, Talking, Partners

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• We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Mistake, Ironic, Warning

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.158, Bantam

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• There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.

  Bill Stone

  Country, Politics, Bleeding

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• The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

  James Branch Cabell

  Tunnels, Light, Track

  The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

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