Stupid Quotes - Page 24

• When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Voice, Guy, Doorways

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening: Number 2 in series”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• I'm sorry.' Congratulations.' Can you tell me why you're so upset?' The thing is, Tobey should get this. I mean, he's gotten everything else about me. And I don't want to explain it all. So much of it has to do with jealousy, and I know it's stupid to be mad at him because he had a life before me. But I am anyway.

  Susane Colasanti

  Sorry, Congratulations, Mean

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• Simon!” The voice was Clary’s. He would know it anywhere. He wondered if his mind was conjuring it up now, a sense memory of what he’d most loved during life to carry him through the process of death. “Simon, you stupid idiot! I’m over here! At the window!” Simon jumped to his feet. He doubted his mind would conjure that up.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Voice, Feet

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

  Cory Doctorow

  Past, Opposites, Long

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.294, Macmillan

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• I'm a werewolf trapped in a human body." "Well, yeah, that's kind of the definition." "No, really. I'm trapped." "Oh? When was the last time you shape-shifted?" "That's just it - I've never shape-shifted." "So you're not really a werewolf." "Not yet. But I was meant to be one, I just know it. How do I get a werewolf to attack me?" Stand in the middle of a forest under a full moon with a raw steak tied to your face, holding a sign that says, 'Eat me; I'm stupid'?

  Carrie Vaughn

  Moon, Body, Shapes

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• A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

  Jim Butcher

  Latin, Kids, Two

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.86, Penguin

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• Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Fall, Perfect

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• Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!" With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?

  Frank Beddor

  Niece, Cat, Eye

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• Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.110, Penguin

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• When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, God, Jobs

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kids, Responsibility, Doctors

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.115, Random House

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• I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare.

  Tasha Tudor

  Cooking, Jam, Apologizing

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• Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Baby, People, Looks

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• There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, Common, Nonsense

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Twilight, Eye

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• I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mother, School, Car

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.138, Penguin

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• She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered if all that hatred didn't just stem from the fact that she was jealous. It must be nice not worrying that every time one of your family members walked out the door, they'd never come back.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Jealous, Doors

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1097, Simon and Schuster

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• Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

  Jack London

  Intelligent, Men, Stupid Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.3148, Delphi Classics

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• And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wrestling, Thinking, Might

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.230, Scholastic Inc.

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• Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.

  Katie MacAlister

  Men, Dense, Not Stupid

  Katie Macalister (2005). “Hard Day's Knight”, p.106, Penguin

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• I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Light, Glowing, Color

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.77, Penguin

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• He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love. He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults - or possibly because of them. But what was he actually? He no longer knew. So much have been given to him in Fantastica, and now, among all these gifts and powers, he could no longer find himself.

  Michael Ende

  Clever, Community, Ugly

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• I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

  Jane Austen

  Mistake, Character, Gay

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions”, p.92, Ignatius Press

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• Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, can’t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates — or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Thinking, Hands

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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