Dumb Quotes
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
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With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people.
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Now you're gone, and nobody says a word about your troubled and exalted life. Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn at your dumb funeral feast.
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Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
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People don't realise how dyslexia affects your confidence and how brutal it can be. People think you're dumb, and you know you're not. it's just how your brain works.
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.
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It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
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I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that.
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I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
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I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.
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Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
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We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.
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Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
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A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.
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Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.
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If I played golf, I'd be on the golf course every day, but I just can't wear those dumb pants.
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I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.
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Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
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I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.
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Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
