Stupid Quotes - Page 21

• Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

  John Irving

  Powerful, Yankees, People

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• Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Writing, Race, Ironic

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: Dorothy Parker" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Wizards First Rule: People are Stupid

  Terry Goodkind

  People, Wizards, Firsts

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• I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sad, Believe, Sorrow

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• The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

  Banksy

  Drinking, Sneakers, Race

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• People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

  Craig Ferguson

  Life, Children, People

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• Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.

  Cressida Cowell

  Reptiles, Hiccups

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• I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of saying, "You are a stupid blithering idiot," said, "Well I think it's a little more complicated than that.

  Lorrie Moore

  Thinking, Laughing, Interesting

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.21, Vintage

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• Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!” Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. “People in fairy tales wish for that all the time,” the genie said. “They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sorry, Numbers, People

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• Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

  Heinrich Heine

  Bipolar, Insane, Human Nature

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• Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn't want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you'd cheat! I knew you'd win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming "Aaaaaaaaaaaa", then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it's just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Real, Hate

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• The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

  Annie Dillard

  Simple, Eggs, Two

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• I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Dirty, Eye

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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• Redd turned to her assassins. "What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about. "Don’t be stupid?" ventured Alistaire. "I should kill you now?" offered The Cat. "Do I have to murder everyone myself?" tried Siren. "No, idiots! When in doubt, go for the head. That’s what I always say.

  Frank Beddor

  Cat, Doubt, Sirens

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• They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because – well, I guess because he might have been glad to see me. Doc's weird that way. Sleepy, the oldest, just stood there, looking … well, sleepy.

  Meg Cabot

  Dumb, Might, Way

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Love You to Death”, p.2, Pan Macmillan

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• For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair. "I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it." With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty. Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark. He never slept first.

  Nora Roberts

  Love You, Eye, Dark

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.1172, Penguin

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• We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

  David Zindell

  Suicide, Real, Smart

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• You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Helping

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• If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

  Terry Pratchett

  Religion, Lightning, Ankh

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

  Patricia Marx

  Coffee, Land, Balance

  Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

  John Gardner

  Evil, Watches, May

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• Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Mean, Mouths

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• Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Execution, Pity, Crime

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• Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.

  Ian Mcewan

  Football, Children, Passion

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• A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Philosophy, Book

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