Stupidest Quotes - Page 2

• A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.

  Benjamin Carson

  Crazy, Stupid, Gay

  "Ben Carson apologizes for comments on gay people" by Eric Bradner and Alexandra Jaffe, edition.cnn.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Stupid, Silly

  "Bush, in his own words". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2000.

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• Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.

  Joy Behar

  Stupid, Party, Men

  "The 20th Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting". humanevents.com. December 19, 2007.

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• Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.

  Al Swearengen

  Trying, All Alone

  "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 1, Episode 2: "Deep Water", March 28, 2004.

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• As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.

  Rick Riordan

  Atlas, Lord, Titans

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.

  Eric Schmidt

  Country, Government, America

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• Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.

  Sandra Bullock

  Love, Crush, Years

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• I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

  Jay Asher

  War, Fire, Jumping

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.

  Kami Garcia

  Stupid, Eye, Moon

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• All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Basketball, Augustus

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

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• Every generation thinks they invented sex, which is the stupidest assumption in the world because if that was the case, you wouldn't even be here.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Sex, Thinking, Generations

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• It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Immortality, Said

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• The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Art, Animal

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• Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

  Eleanor Clark

  Dog, Cat, Knows

  Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

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• In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

  Wendell Berry

  Work, Intelligent, Skills

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.26, Counterpoint

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• One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Evolution, Theory, Western

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• The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.

  Chase Twichell

  Depression, Country, Depressed Person

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• I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children. I love my children. I was holding my son tight. Why would I throw a baby off the balcony? That's the dumbest, stupidest story I ever heard.

  Michael Jackson

  Baby, Children, Mistake

  "Is Michael Jackson out of control?". www.cnn.com. November 21, 2002.

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• As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler

  Mistake, Stupid, Animal

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• This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Wrestling, Class

  Meg Cabot (2009). “High Stakes”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

  Danny Wallace

  Regret, Mistake, Moving

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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• What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.

  George Saunders

  War, Guy, Slaughterhouse Five

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.82, A&C Black

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• She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

  Lisa McMann

  School, Dwarves, Giving

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it. Every day before that an evening with you was waiting for me after school, now no more, strange feeling. I had grown too accustomed to your warmth. That is also a danger. At home I looked at the notebooks that you had bought and I got the stupidest surge of hope that I'd find something of you, something especially for meant for me. I would so much like to have something of you that I could always keep by me, that nobody else would notice.

  Sophie Scholl

  Notebook, School, Home

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