Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

The only dumb question is the one you don't ask.

Ed Schultz

If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.

Charlaine Harris

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

Charlie Munger

The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].

Charles Manson

The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing.

Bill Maher

If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.

What a dumb number to be at. She's ready to go over 12-feet She has been really focused and could possibly regionally qualify at this meet.

We're mostly trying to stop people from doing dumb things.

Brandon Boyd

Never underestimate a dumb question.

Britney Spears

I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.

Ashwin Sanghi

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

This proposal is to dumb down the work force.

When you concede dumb goals, you've usually got to pay a price.

Clint Eastwood

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Walter Benjamin

If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk

Andy Borowitz

Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public.

Maybe we're just too dumb to know we shouldn't be doing this. And we really don't care.

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb

Jerry Coleman

I don't feel quite as dumb as they make me look,

Brooke Shields

There are no dumb male questions. There are dumb males, but not dumb male questions.

Brian Selznick

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.

Ambrose Bierce

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

Drew Curtis

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Dolly Parton

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

Danica McKellar

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

Curt Schilling

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

David Byrne

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

Andy Stanley

If we start to dumb down what has been made clear, where does that stop?

I think it comes down to the fact that we're just dumb enough to think we can have fun together playing on stage.

He just played dumb on the stand. He remembered some facts and didn't remember others.

Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at

We are going to need some pretty dumb ones to come into this.