Stupid Quotes - Page 9

• When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

  David Byrne

  Bears, Ridiculous, Helping

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• I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.

  James Caan

  Bulls

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• Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Silly, Acting

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• Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Silly, Happy Life, Fool

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• God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

  Orson Scott Card

  Way, Causes, Environment

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.255, Macmillan

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• Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

  Steve Carell

  Children, Smart, Brain

  "Steve Carell on How to Act Brilliant". Interview with Nancy Miller, www.wired.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

  Steve Carell

  Children, Kids, Underestimate

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• But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

  Donald Cargill

  Thinking, Champion, Generations

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• I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

  Benjamin Carson

  Agreement, Students, Worst

  "Saving America: Dr. Benjamin Carson's fight for real change". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

  Jackie Chan

  Crazy, Not Stupid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just went and saw 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' Julianne Moore - I've been in love with her since 'Boogie Nights.' But also, 'The Big Lebowski.'

  Kyle Chandler

  Crazy, Night, Saws

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• Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Miracle, Disease, Disaster

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Holiday, Thinking, America

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• I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Personality, President, Paper

  "Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries". Book by James B. Stewart, February 1996.

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• The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

  Ty Cobb

  Challenges, Clubs, Way

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• A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Blunt, Statements

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• I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Years, Ignorant

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• Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

  Doris Day

  Girl, Looks, Glamorous

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• As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

  Demosthenes

  Wise, Men, Speech

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

  Johnny Depp

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Money, Good Luck, Intelligent

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

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• You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

  Vin Diesel

  Congratulations, Feel Good, Littles

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• I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Opportunity, Trying, Tails

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr interview". IndieLondon interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Technique, Actors, Want

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• Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Birthday, Dumb, Age

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