Dumb Quotes

• He was once our trumpeter, now his bugle's dumb, Pile your arms beneath it, for the owlet light is come, We'll wander through the roses where we marched of old with Peterkin, We'll search the summer sunset where the Hybla beehives hum, And - if we meet a fairy there - we'll ask for news of Peterkin.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Light
  • Summer
  • Search

• If you're squeezed for information,that's when you've got to play it dumb:You just say you're out there waitingfor the miracle to come.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Miracle
  • Dumb

• I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Dumb

• I call my music the healing music… It makes the blind feel that they can see, the lame feel that they can walk, the deaf and dumb that they can hear and talk.

  

  Little Richard
  • Music
  • Healing
  • Dumb

• If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Conform

• In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Up
  • Stupid
  • Famous

• I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

  

  Doug Liman
  • People
  • Action
  • Dumb

• I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.

  

  George Clooney
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Mistake

• None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Smart
  • Dumb
  • Really Smart

• Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Men
  • Done
  • Fun

• I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Live
  • Dumb

• It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Quality

• I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human. But, I'm man enough to face 'em today. What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb. But, the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of that gun. Because I'd have killed them. Shit, I'd have shot Kim and them both. It's my life, I'd like to welcome you all to 'The Eminem Show'.

  

  Eminem
  • Life
  • Today
  • Doubt

• If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, 30 Norwegian death metal bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • People
  • Music
  • Death

• I've always felt like I'm on the outside. I think certain people judge you right away, and I've always been acutely sensitive to that. I'm fighting, whether it's accurate or not, a perception that I get of people thinking I'm dumb.

  

  Bobby Cannavale
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fighting

• Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.

  

  David Cross
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dumb

• To realize the promise of 5G, we will need smart networks, not dumb pipes. Dumb pipes won't deliver smart cities. Dumb pipes won't enable millions of connected, self-driving cars to navigate the roads safely at the same time.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Time
  • Smart
  • Promise

• If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

  

  Arnold Rothstein
  • Why
  • Dumb

• Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Wonder
  • Summer
  • Dumb

• . . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.

  

  A. E. Stallings
  • Dumb
  • Hindsight
  • Orpheus

• I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Help
  • Use

• And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Sea
  • Green
  • Calm

• The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • People
  • Society
  • Opportunity

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