Dumb Quotes - Page 30

• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Flower, Roots

  "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)

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• Cruel, but composed and bland,
  Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
  So Tiberius might have sat,
  Had Tiberius been a cat.

  Matthew Arnold

  Cat, Might, Sat

  'Poor Matthias' (1885) l. 40

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• With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Silence, Soul

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.138

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• I'm a dumb-ass, and I poisoned myself for years. Now I understand things better.

  Johnny Depp

  Years, Alcohol, Drug

  "Johnny Depp Sings" by Gavin Edwards, www.rollingstone.com. January 24, 2008.

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• The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Morning, Fun, Betrayal

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.253, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Book, Rough Drafts, Coconuts

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• Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.

  T. E. D. Klein

  Writing, Events, Dresses

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• Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.

  Johnny Depp

  Stupid, Like You, Feels

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• No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.

  Peter McWilliams

  Stupid, Learning, Lessons To Be Learned

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.

  Kylie Bax

  Stupid, Believe, Purple

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• It's nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he'll bring a drill or something.

  Brooke Shields

  Nice, Stupid, Giving

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• Every minute was more exciting than the next.

  Linda Evans

  Stupid, Next, Minutes

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• I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

  Beth Daniel

  Smart, Stupid, Golf

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• Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.

  Tim Hudson

  Stupid, Kids, Years

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• As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

  Thomas More

  Running, Wall, Garden

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• The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

  James Gould Cozzens

  People, Brilliant, Innocent

  James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

  Fran Drescher

  Jobs, Television, Pilots

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• "Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

  Judy Sheindlin

  Beauty, Father, Forever

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• It doesn't matter if it's a school play or a dumb TV show. It's your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you.

  Tina Fey

  School, Tv Shows, Play

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• I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

  Barack Obama

  Political, Challenges, Way

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.31, Crown

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• No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

  Queen Victoria

  Character, Civilization, Doe

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• I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.

  Werner Herzog

  Sweet, Blow, Ideas

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• And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Pain, Past

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Intelligence, Easier

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• I think if you're gonna get a tattoo, just get one: the words, 'I'm dumb.' That's it. That way in 10 years, when you go, 'Why did I get this?,' you can be like, 'Oh, I'm dumb!'

  Daniel Tosh

  Tattoo, Thinking, Years

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