“You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.” NextMorningStupidHeadlines Author:Barry Manilow
“I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding.” TryingLooksSaidNextBrainStupidFiguresDoctorsElectionWorriedAirplaneBobMisunderstandingHatefulLuggage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.” ThinkingMenPersonsLongDoeHas BeensIdeasFeelingsYoungNextPartyStupidLong TimeIntellectualExpectedFavorsCleverYoung ManShockLunchPerpetualRelentlessNephewHuxleyStupid PersonClever Person Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen.And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.” PeopleIfsDreamSeemsNextCausesWorryStupidGladQueensCall MeUnforeseen Author:Alexander Rybak
“...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, 'I recently read where--' and they'll cut you off and say, 'Oh, I don't read'... This is a tragedy on so many different levels. First, because they don't read, they don't know enough to keep it to themselves. Next, and this is the most amazing part, they use a demeaning tone like I'm the stupid one for wasting time with books.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBookDifferentEnoughUseNextLevelsTalkingCuttingGrowingStupidTragedyToneWasting TimeItemsFilesCapsMost AmazingDifferent LevelsDemeaningDunces Author:Tim Dorsey
“When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.” IfsWantGivingYearsUseDreamBigsJobsNextCompanyStupidFiguresSmartLaysWhat You WantPursuePanicSalaryBig CompaniesYou Re Stupid Author:Bruce Schneier
“I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry.” PeopleWayBookBigsRunningPassionEvilNextWinningStupidTenAngerAngryTiredSorryI'm SorryI'm TiredStupid ThingsCan't Win Author:Laura Schlessinger
“Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.” PeopleBelievePersonsWholeNextBusinessHonestStupidJudgmentBillsEntrepreneurInsaneGatesValleysOddsLoaded Author:Tom Peters
“What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.” ThinkingWantLooksMadeReasonBigsEyeDiesNextAnimalStupidMetsEatingPreparedFarmsCowsBulletsNext TimeDeliciousBeggingBegging You Author:Paul Rodriguez
“I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.” PeopleLittlesHappensNextAsksBitsStupidLessonsLittle BitHarderDividesNext TimeLearners Author:Benjamin Barber
“I'm thinking of doing everything now, including this stupid act of waiting for someone in front of their house so you should do the same. You have no thoughts of becoming the little mermaid, so that's why I'll be come the little mermaid instead. I'll be right next to you as if I am not there and disappear like foam. So right now, I am the one shamelessly hanging on to you.” IfsThinkingShouldLittlesNextHouseWaitingFrontsStupidBecomingRight NowIncludingDisappearMermaidHanging OnFoam Author:Joo
“Maybe our grandmothers weren't as stupid as we thought. The family, volunteer work, religion, shaping the hearts and minds of the next generation-maybe all that can't be reduced to just 'shining floors and wiping noses.'” MindHeartNextGenerationsStupidShiningNosesGrandmotherVolunteerHeart And MindNext GenerationVolunteer Work Author:Myriam Miedzian
“It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.” WritingFilmGuyCertainNextSoundSidesRichCarStupidBuildingStrangePaperSittingTinyOpeningBoredReviewsThis GuyHammersSunnyDanishCannesSunny Side Author:Lars von Trier
“I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".” IfsFeelsSaidHandsRunningKidsReadingNextSawsCuttingOne ThingStupidRepublicanTaxesNext TimeRunnersPalinTax CutsPawsCoyotesRoad Runner Author:Bill Maher
“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.” PeopleGivingFactsSongNextSpeakBitsAbilityNumbersAudienceFocusStreetsStupidPlanetsSkillsOrdinaryGive MeSettingSettingsAcquireConcentrationRealisingPausesKeyboardsDisillusionNew SkillsAbility To Speak Author:Susan Schneider
“I have to admit, I have a little sad addiction. I love watching on the E Channel that stupid show, The Girls Next Door. It's a very sad thing to say and I don't know how to explain it but I am addicted to Hugh Hefner's girlfriends and The Girls Next Door.” KnowsLittlesShowsGirlNextKnow HowDoorsStupidAddictionGirlfriendVery SadSad Things Author:Julie Halston
“It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.” IfsIdeasDifferentSongNextPartyStupidPhonesDisturbingBillboards Author:Beck
“Kelly reported, 'more video has surfaced showing this was not the first time Mr. Gruber called the American people stupid in an 'off-the-cuff' remark. In this next clip from also last year, Mr. Gruber explains how Democrats played with the language of the Obamacare law so that it achieved their goals, by again, fooling the stupid public.'” PeopleYearsFirstsLastsLawNextLanguageGoalStupidFirst TimeDemocratVideoLast YearRemarksNotableObamacareClipCuffs Author:Alexander Viets Griswold
“Most of the crew were staying in Monaco. But my family and I were actually staying in Nice because I had my whole family there and we wanted a little more space and to stay in a hotel. The truth is we were asleep [when the attack Bastille Day terror happened] and woke up the next morning to it and it was obviously horrific. And then the idea of going out and filming, it just felt so stupid to be working the next day and pretending that everything's cool when you're making some frivolous thing.” LittlesIdeasWholeWantedNextFeltSpaceMorningNiceHappenedStupidTruth IsMy FamilyTerrorHotelStayingPretendingGoing OutCrewNext DayFrivolousHorrificWhole FamilyMonacoBastille Author:Jamie Dornan
“The greatest thing that ever happened to (my career) was the breakdown of the record companies, because there were no more stupid questions about how many hits are on the next record. It was very liberating.” NextCompanyCareersRecordsHappenedStupidLiberatingBreakdownRecord CompaniesStupid Questions Author:John Mellencamp
“If you put Canada into $1.5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That's a very, very scary prospect. You can't burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don't go up? That's insane. That's irresponsible. That's stupid.” PeopleIfsYearsNextSocialInterestMillionsEconomyRiskStupidBasesAssumingRateBurdenScaryDebtInsaneCanadaContractsIrresponsibleInterest RateInsurmountableSocial Contract Author:Kevin O'Leary
“It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.” PeopleStatesThreeNextHousePresidentPartyWonderStupidMonthsKingsElectionDemocraticBarackPresidentialSecretarySpeculationDemocratic PartyPresident Barack ObamaThree MonthsPresidential Election Author:Bill Ayers
“I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.” PeopleWantGivingLittlesShowsTurnsNextMissingStupidSillyCompassionateNext TimeCurvesTwistsBeing SillyTwists And Turns Author:John Mayer
“There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.” NextDoorsStupidIntellectualRemarksChernobyl Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel
“What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?” IfsKnowsWarFightingNextLinesBrainStupidMy FriendsWhat IfVersusAnnabethAnnabeth ChaseAthenaSeaweedPoseidonStupid QuestionsTrojansTrojan War Author:Rick Riordan