Stupid Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Wall, Pain

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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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• All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is the stupid goat!" "Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown... In this life we live, there are always some bitter pills to be swallowed..." "If it's all the same with you, I'd rather not renew my perscription!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hero, Goats, Pills

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• He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he'd done, but in the next breath tell her she'd deserved it. That if she'd been more careful, it wouldn't have happened. That if she'd been paying attention or hadn't been so stupid, he wouldn't have lost his temper.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Attention, Bruises, Done

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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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• 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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• You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Asking, Wiser

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

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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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• Da, hes waiting for me to tell the two of you our news first, then he'll join me." He cocked a dark brow at her. "And why would he not come to your mother and me first and ask permission to handfast with you, as is the honorable thing to do?" She cocked her own brow, mirroring his expression perfectly. "Because he's not stupid. Anyone with any sense would be scared of you two. But even scared to death, he wanted to come with me. I wouldn't let him. I knew I needed to talk to you alone first.

  P. C. Cast

  Mother, Dark, Expression

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• 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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