Idiot Quotes - Page 31

• When the guy turned around, Amy began stuttering. Silently. It was a feat only Amy could manage, and only Dan could notice. And it only happened in front of boys who looked like this one. He had brown hair and caramel-colored eyes, like Dan's friend Nick Santos, who made all the sixth-grade girls turn into blithering idiots when he looked their way--in fact, would even say Watch, lean make them turn into blithering idiots, and then he'd do it. Only older. "He. Is. Hot," Nellie said under her breath. "You too?" Dan hissed.

  Peter Lerangis

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Dollars, Littles

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.34, Random House

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• You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Divergent, Loaded

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smart, Kids, Thinking

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• Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.

  Mira Grant

  Long, Care, Ifs

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• I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Thinking, Happy Endings

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• What are you doing following me around the back streets of London, you little idiot?” Will demanded, giving her arm a light shake. Cecily’s eyes narrowed. “This morning it was cariad (note: Welsh endearment, like ‘darling’ or ‘love’), now it’s idiot.

  Cassandra Clare

  Morning, Eye, Light

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• I guess Smart Seth is glad, he said reluctantly. But be careful. Idiot Seth is the guy to watch out for.

  Brandon Mull

  Smart, Guy, Watches

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

  Lauren Willig

  Disease, Lasts, Single Women

  Lauren Willig (2005). “The Secret History of the Pink Carnation”, p.247, Penguin

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• Far below I heard Cacus bellowing as millions, maybe even thousands of filthy gallons of water slammed into him. Meanwhile, Annabeth alternately shouted, gagged, hit me, called me endearing pet names like, "Idiot! Stupid - dirty -
  moron - " and topped it all off with, "Kill you!

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Dirty, Names

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Yelling, Definitions, Lovers

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• What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?

  Tanya Huff

  Village Idiots, Village

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• The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Stupid, Believe

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• Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

  Melina Marchetta

  Echoes, Voice, Gorges

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• Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Angel, Eden, Beast

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• Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Running, Skills, Long

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.58, Random House

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• People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

  John Green

  Being In Love, People, Ifs

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• She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?

  Karl Pilkington

  Dirty, Population Problem, Worst Case Scenario

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.11, Canongate Books

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• Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Half, Andrew, Hated

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• Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself. Now I believe you should consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it's an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner–ah!–you find it beautiful.

  David Henry Hwang

  Beautiful, Girl, Queens

  "M. Butterfly". Play by David Henry Hwang, February 10, 1988.

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• I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dream, Writing, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.402, Feiwel & Friends

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• I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

  Stanislaw Lem

  World, Internet, Known

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• As I followed him along the sharp black stones, I could hear Link's voice in my head. "Bad move, man. He's gonna kill you, stuff you, and add you to his collection of idiots who followed him back to his creepy cave

  Kami Garcia

  Moving, Men, Voice

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• I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.

  Kami Garcia

  Two, Way, Ifs

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• Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.

  Jim Butcher

  Cheating, Lying, Drinking

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