Top 40 Doing Stupid Things Quotes
#1. When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
Andy Stanley
#2. You are a nobody till you stop doing the same stupid things everybody else is doing!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.
Avril Lavigne
#5. How come if people keep telling me I'm so smart, I keep doing such stupid things?
George Watsky
#6. The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Oscar Wilde
#7. I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
Barry Manilow
#8. The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things.
David Haye
#9. Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.
Gregor Collins
#10. It's not fair, men get to go off and chase around the country and get medals for doing stupid things and women get to sit home and worry.
Nancy E. Turner
#11. I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.
Hans Fallada
#12. Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Douglas Gwyn
#13. If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.
Alan W. Watts
#14. The fence was probably there to keep people from getting onto the highway and doing stupid things - like sledding into the fast lane on snack trays - but
Rick Riordan
#15. Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. How many times had Rusty reminded Miri, You're my only child. You're my life. So when it comes to doing stupid things, don't. Because I couldn't stand it if I lost you. Do you understand? Now Miri thought she understood. There was a burden to being the only child.
Judy Blume
#17. As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
Jesse Eisenberg
#18. Natalie wasn't the type of person who blamed others for the stupid things they did. She tried to be very understanding of their idiocy. Besides, they were probably doing the best they could. The world was a tough place, and it must be *so* much harder if you were stupid.
Elizabeth Gannon
#19. If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.
Homer
#20. People die because they want who they want. They do all kinds of crazy, stupid, sweet, tender, amazing, self-destructive things. You aren't going to make anyone "see the light and realize that what they're doing is wrong." You just aren't.
Cheryl Strayed
#21. But Bellamy had been doing stupid things his whole life, and he had no intention of stopping now.
Kass Morgan
#22. Wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.
Tim Bray
#23. I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an 'I told you so.' Moms are usually right. You're wrong if you don't think that they've done what we're doing, because they have.
Elle King
#24. Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid
Giuseppe Verdi
#25. Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue
Chang - Lost Horizon (1933)
James Hilton
#26. If you're going to do something, do something that matters. Don't waste your time doing stupid things with even bigger losers going nowhere.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#27. I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.
Margaret Atwood
#28. Yeah ... I finally understood it ...
That exchanging information ...
Sharing time ...
The act of "let's go to the bathroom together" was the holy ritual of confirming one's friendship ...
Until now I was an idiot doing stupid things.
Taishi Zaou, Eiki Eiki
#29. I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#30. I wonder how it is that I'm fooling so many people, I'm doing one of the most stupid things in the world ... and people seem to be falling for it.
Cindy Sherman
#31. He felt a killing hate for the stupid, ordinary, disapproving people who kept him from doing what he wanted to do. "Someday I am going to have things just like I want," he said to himself. "And if any moralizing son of a bitch gives me any static, they will fish him out of the river.
William S. Burroughs
#32. People are just people, doing people things. Sometimes they're stupid, and sometimes they're desperate, and a lot of the time it's just bad luck. Don't get your knickers in a twist over people.
Claire North
#33. You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
Tom Lehrer
#34. I'm going to die. This is how I'm going to die, and this is where I'm going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.
Barry Lyga
#35. Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
Sarah Dessen
#36. I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
Joshua Jackson
#38. Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.
Billy Bob Thornton
#39. You're suppose to stop her from doing stupid things, not helping
Sara Shepard
#40. People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.
Ray Charles
