John Lennon Quotes

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• I'm a one-man idiot.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Idiot
  • One-Man

• I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Learned

• If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Real
  • Running
  • Problem

• He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Nature
  • Mystery
  • Idiot

• Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Idiot

• I don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it comes to figuring out where objects are in space. If they're both moving, I can't do the math. If you ever see me driving down a road, go somewhere else quickly.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Space
  • Kind
  • Moving

• What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Answers
  • Idiot

• Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Two
  • Three
  • Idiot

• If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Genius
  • Birth
  • Idiot

• That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Catholic
  • Stills
  • Wells

• Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Said
  • Half
  • Fine

• It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Writing
  • Emotional
  • Feelings

• My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • Study
  • Idiot

• Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Failing

• Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Problem
  • Leader
  • Idiot

• How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Thinking
  • Idiot

• Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Idiot

• Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Proud
  • Reason
  • Wisdom

• You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Idiot
  • Pity
  • Village

• The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Science
  • California
  • Engineering

• My background is in arts education and we know, absolutely for a fact, that there is no better way for kids to learn critical thinking skills, communication skills, things like empathy and tolerance. This is true across every boundary, across cultural boundaries, across socioeconomic, it's a great leveler in terms of unifying our world.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Education
  • Communication
  • Skills

• As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Idiot
  • Great woman