Stupid Quotes - Page 23

• When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.

  Scott Adams

  Giving, Choke, Life Gives You Lemons

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• Hey!" I screamed, waving the jacket, running to one side of the monster. "Hey, stupid! Ground beef!

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Monsters, Beef

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Army, Ideas

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• What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen to be British royalty. (And, if by chance you are, then let me say, “Hello, Your Majesty! Welcome to my stupid book. Can I borrow some cash?”)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Mean, Doubt

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.114, Macmillan

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• Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Blame, Speak, Involved

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

  Cornelia Funke

  Hero, Knives, Enemy

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.472, Chicken House

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• Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open." Have you been watching Oprah again?

  James Patterson

  Way, Maximum Ride, Deals

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• Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

  Carson McCullers

  Wine, Mean, Acceptance

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What's your name?" what?" i asked, squinting at the light. your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me. you know my name." I want you to tell me." Rose. Rose Hathaway." Do you know your birthday?" Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?" Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Light, Names

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• Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Life, Smile

  "The Sandman: The Kindly Ones". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

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• The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

  Bono

  Dear, Wells, Irresponsible

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• There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain. ~Toshiro Hitsugaya

  Tite Kubo

  Pain, Men, Old Man

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• Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

  Jacques Barzun

  Block, Writing, Wish

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• Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

  Haruki Murakami

  Organization, People, Too Much

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• Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Calling, Able, Wonder

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• Every time I think I’m getting smarter I realize that I’ve just done something stupid. Dad says there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know; those who don’t know and do know they don’t know; and those who know and know how much they still don’t know. Heavy stuff, I know. I think I’ve finally graduated from the don’t-knows that don’t know to the don’t-knows that do.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dad, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 21, 2014

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• Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brain, Gold, Draco Malfoy

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• Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

  Lynn Viehl

  Home, Doors, Ideas

  Lynn Viehl (2005). “Private Demon: A Novel of the Darkyn”, p.80, Penguin

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• You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze

  Brandon Sanderson

  Trying, Sound, Way

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Wise, Here I Am, Perfect

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.82, Yale University Press

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• He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

  Alice Hoffman

  People, Flawed, Unfathomable

  Alice Hoffman (2009). “The Story Sisters: A Novel”, p.158, Broadway Books

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• Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very complicated," he said sadly. "So they are," John Rowlands said. His voice deepened a little, louder and clearer than it had been. "But when the battles between you and your adversaries are done, Will Stanton, in the end the fate of all the world will depend on just those people, and on how many of them are good or bad, stupid or wise. And indeed it is all so complicated that I would not dare foretell what they will do with their world. Our world.

  Susan Cooper

  Wise, Fate, Our World

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• "Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

  Terry Pratchett

  Two, World, Natural

  "Men at Arms (Discworld, Book 15)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1993.

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• The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.

  Janet Fitch

  Rain, Stupid Things

  Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• I am messaging you to say that I love you, and that you're completely wrong about me thinking you're stupid. I always thought you could teach me things. I was always waiting. You're not like the others. You say things that no one expects you to. You think you're stupid. You want to be stupid. But you're someone people could learn from.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Love You, Thinking, People

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