Dumb Quotes - Page 11

• Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.

  Jackie Collins

  Cheater, Men, People

  Jackie Collins (2011). “MARRIED LOVERS”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

  Susan Sontag

  World, Feels, Knows

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Reality, Names, Pages

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Honestly, Jared, one thing at a time. Why are you in a well with me? This is a really bad rescue!" [...] "I called the police as I was running to the well. I'm sure they're coming." "Did they say they were coming?" Kami asked suspiciously. "Or did you shout, 'Kami's in the well!' before jumping in the well too, thus loosing your phone and making sure the police think it was some kids playing a dumb joke?" Jared paused. [...] "Alternate plan," Jared said. "Do you have a very intelligent collie who might communicate through a system of barks to your parents that little Kami is in the well?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Running, Kids, Intelligent

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• so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Believe, Cat, Tree

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• He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Alive, Knows

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.26, Oldcastle Books

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• Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Should Have, Feelings, Jewelry

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.182, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

  Stephen Hawking

  Crazy, Smart, People

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• That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Ocean, Rushing

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I've never heard of one. And that includes me.

  Jessica Simpson

  Hilarious, Stupid, Texas

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• This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.

  Russell Crowe

  Hilarious, Stupid, Done

  "Russell Crowe Apologizes for Phone Rage". www.foxnews.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

  Kevin Spacey

  Humor, Numbers, Deep Thought

  "Edinburgh TV Fest: Kevin Spacey Tells Industry 'It's the Creatives, Stupid'" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 22, 2013.

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• The fine emotions whence our lives we mold
  Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Lying, Mold

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• Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all to be just like Him', So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... (And maybe even a little ugly on the side)

  Frank Zappa

  Book, Religion, Atheism

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

  Spencer Silver

  Failure, Silly, Creativity

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• I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.

  Howie Klein

  Smart, Hate, Journey

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• We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Father, Animal, Vegetarianism

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1867). “Queer Little People”, p.150

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• I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.

  Linda Evangelista

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggguulliing...We're looking to make a noise now and ... I wanna kiss you!

  Joe Namath

  Sports, Team, Kissing

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• I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

  Jerry Rice

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

  Karl Malone

  Sports, Goats, Funniest Sports

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• Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

  Tim McCarver

  Sports, Simple, Guy

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• Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.

  Tim McCarver

  Sports, Toes, Fingers

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• The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

  Tim McCarver

  Sports, Arms, Reason

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