Dumb Quotes

• 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
  • Player
  • Positive
  • Worry

• There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.

  

  George W. Buck
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Dumb

• The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.

  

  Anton Newcombe
  • Road
  • Animals
  • Middle

• I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.

  

  Jon Watts
  • Family
  • Science
  • Nerd

• People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?'

  

  Ed King
  • People
  • Names
  • Asking

• There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Question
  • Dumb

• There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Actors
  • Politician
  • Bakers

• There's no need to put a dumb picture of us on the album cover. We always look at ourselves and think, 'Wow, we look like idiots.' We'd rather have a piece of art on there.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Art
  • Picture
  • Dumb

• America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • America
  • Dumb
  • Aggressive

• On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Speak
  • Dumb
  • Ghost

• 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
  • World
  • Heart
  • Age

• 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
  • Men
  • Live
  • Soul

• The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Heart
  • Blue
  • Farmer

• 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
  • Death
  • Ignore
  • Dumb

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

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Important
  • Dumb

• 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
  • Job
  • Dumb

• Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • Age
  • Dumb

• America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • America
  • Hurt
  • Dumb

• 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
  • Dumb

• 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
  • Live
  • Strong
  • Control

• This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Society

• I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Period
  • My Life
  • Dumb

• His wife is, it occurs to Harry, a channel that can't be switched. The same slightly too-high forehead, the same dumb stubborn slot of a mouth, day after day, same time, same station.

  

  John Updike
  • Time
  • High
  • Wife

• I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for [stand-up or scripts].

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

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