Top 40 Being An Idiot Quotes

#1. Ah. I suppose." Oh, this was deeply unpleasant. Being trapped into meaningless small talk with an idiot had never intrigued him, even on a good day. Which this wasn't.

Morgan Rhodes

#2. I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had

Nora Roberts

#3. Watson."
"What?"
"I'm sorry I picked a fight with you," Holmes said sleepily. "But you should know I had a good reason."
"I know, I was being an idiot."
"No, it wasn't your fault. The note said you'd be killed if you stayed, so I fixed it. I was horrible until you went away.

Brittany Cavallaro

#4. Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

Dalton Trumbo

#5. No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. Is your name even David?' I asked as I yanked my panties back on.
'Is yours Melanie?' he inquired, buttoning his jeans.
'I asked first,' I countered, wondering for the umpteenth time why being an idiot came so easily to me.

Robyn Peterman

#7. Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?

Erick Erickson

#9. Clearly, being in love makes you an idiot," he muttered...

Samantha Chase

#10. Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig."
"Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.

Rick Riordan

#11. Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

Janeane Garofalo

#12. Stop being an idiot; all that matters is growth.

Eric Schmidt

#13. In your lifetime, at what point do you stop being an idiot? I'm 24. Enough is enough!

Ernests Gulbis

#14. What human being would ever have conceived the idea of such a journey? and, if such a person really existed, he must be an idiot, whom one would shut up in a lunatic ward, rather than within the walls of the projectile.

Jules Verne

#15. I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.

Will Ferrell

#16. A girl on the cheer squad had once asked Gabriel if having a twin was like looking in a mirror all the time. He'd asked her if being a cheerleader was like being an idiot all of the time - but really, it was a good question.

Brigid Kemmerer

#17. If people can't tell when I'm being an idiot and when I'm being a genius, perhaps they'll assume my blunders are brilliant political maneuvers.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

Burt Reynolds

#19. Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

David Bailey

#20. I got fired from a movie that ended up being called 'Windows,' which Gordon Willis, the cinematographer, directed. I got fired because he refused to cast Meryl Streep, who at the time was at Yale. I told him I thought he was an idiot, and he fired me.

Scott Rudin

#21. Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.
'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Melina Marchetta

#22. We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.

Eoin Colfer

#23. Yes, you're in charge. That makes me XO, and it's the XO's job to tell the captain when he's being an idiot. You're being an idiot, sir.

James S.A. Corey

#24. I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.

James Woods

#25. There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.

Edie Campbell

#26. It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

Lewis Black

#27. Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Alexander Grothendieck

#28. I do 90 minutes of exercise a day, and obviously I have the lap band ... (it's) about being fitter, happier and more active.' But he admitted: 'I'm an idiot. I (still) smoke and do all those things I shouldn't do.

James Packer

#29. I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.

Bobby Fischer

#30. We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

Eoin Colfer

#31. I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

Jessa Crispin

#32. God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#33. A mouse who fails to get the cheese tries again without kicking herself for being an idiot.

Loretta Graziano Breuning

#34. My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too
enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

Diana Gabaldon

#35. I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

Sherman Alexie

#36. Cheesy lines like that will get you nowhere with me, but, by all means, keep them coming. You're so much easier to ignore when you're being an idiot.

Kelly Oram

#37. The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

Salman Rushdie

#38. Look, you're cute, but you're not cute enough to keep me from going off on you for being an idiot. - Cold Blood

Heather Hildenbrand

#39. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

Scott Adams

#40. Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

Scott Adams

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