Dumb Quotes
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Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.
T. E. D. Klein
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Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.
Matthew Arnold
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
Jonathan Swift
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
Sonny Liston
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I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
Christina Aguilera
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I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars...
Jay-Z
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Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.
Alex Pareene
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People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.
Estelle Getty
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No eye saw him, while with loving pride Each voice with each in praise of Jubal vied. Must he in conscious trance, dumb, helpless lie While all that ardent kindred passed him by? His flesh cried out to live with living men, And join that soul which to the inward ken Of all the hymning train was present there.
George Eliot
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The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.
Anton Newcombe
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I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.
Sarah Silverman
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To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realise that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.
Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
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It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum
Joseph Heller
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And other spirits there are standing apartUpon the forehead of the age to come;These, these will give the world another heart,And other pulses. Hear ye not the humOf mighty workings in a distant mart?Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb.
John Keats
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Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
Donald Sutherland
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I had two parts of my body: my left side, which was strong and somewhat dumb, and the other side was weak and hard to control but perhaps smarter. It gave me a very strong sense of the duality of the plane that we live in.
Leon Russell
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Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb.
Alice Notley
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On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.
Eleanor Farjeon
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It takes a smart man to play dumb.
Mr. T
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I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.
Doug Liman
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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.
Curt Schilling
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Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.
John McEnroe
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When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'
Louis C. K.