Dumb Quotes

• Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Respect
  • Effects
  • Breaths

• 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

• Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Live
  • Dumb
  • Ideation

• Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Dream

• I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Audience
  • Concerts
  • Paralyzed

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

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Speak
  • Dumb
  • Ghost

• The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

  

  William James
  • Book
  • Mean
  • Feelings

• Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

  

  Gene Hart
  • Should
  • Written
  • Crayon

• I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Crazy

• We started recording videos around our house, like, doing dumb stuff. Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos.

  

  Jake Paul
  • House
  • Dumb

• Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.

  

  William Somervile
  • Proud
  • Fall
  • Lying

• 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

• How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Water
  • Dumb

• I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

  

  Mike Myers
  • Done
  • Dumb
  • Jokes

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

  

  Anton Newcombe
  • Road
  • Animals
  • Middle

• You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don't have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It's so dumb. So we got rid of that.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Movie
  • Hate
  • Dumb

• All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Knowledge
  • Smart
  • Exhausting

• The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

  

  Daniel Burka
  • People
  • Trying
  • Design

• When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Dumb
  • Breath
  • I Find

• Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Dumb

• 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

• I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.

  

  David Massengill
  • Writing
  • Word
  • Happens

• Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Dumb
  • Hole
  • Drum

• I actually feel most at home when I find people who make me feel really dumb, who are brilliant at their particular things. And then I gather these people, put them in a room and watch incredible things come out of it.

  

  Mick Ebeling
  • People
  • Really
  • Rooms

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