Top 100 Dumb But Quotes
#1. Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
Danica McKellar
#2. Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
Donald Sutherland
#3. I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
Adam McKay
#4. [Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver
the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.
Will Cuppy
#5. Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.
Nathan Myhrvold
#6. Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
James Baldwin
#7. Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
Will Rogers
#8. My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded.
Bonnie McFarlane
#9. His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.
Dean Koontz
#11. Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#13. I'm sure in the past I've said marriage is stupid. Marriage makes someone sign a contract promising something they really can't deliver. I'm sure I will again say marriage is dumb. But I can also imagine why it could be lovely. There's something beautiful about truly being there for another person.
Amy Schumer
#16. So many of us have our asses watching stupid reality shows, desensitizing our brains. Like, "Wow, isn't that dumb, but I'm so entertained right now! That's the stupidest thing I've seen in my life - give me more of it!" It's not good.
Michael Pitt
#17. Someone could have told me," he finally said, feeling and sounding both miserable and pathetic. "Oh, honey, I knew you were dumb, but this was beyond my expectations.
Ashlyn Kane
#18. I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes.
Paris Hilton
#20. So, I guess it's true what they say, beauty and brains don't always go together."
Crow smiled.
"Did you just call me dumb, but ridiculously good-looking?
John H. Ames
#21. A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.
Eugene Atget
#22. I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.
Russell Lynes
#23. Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.
Ray Davies
#24. We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
Dan Futterman
#25. Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself
Jon Lajoie
#26. At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her.
Don DeLillo
#27. Someone told me to dumb my poetry down, but I told them I can't because I don't have a smart phone.
Delano Johnson
#28. Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb ...
Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.
E-40
#29. We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell
#30. Bundle! Chuck shouted agin, nonsensically, as he hurled himself on top of them. It was as if he were re-creating a scene from some dumb college frat movie he'd loved but no one else had ever seen.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#31. Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
Orson Scott Card
#32. Duck Dynasty viewers think they're the experts on hunting, but actually they're the hunted ones, just another dumb demographic to be captured, laughed at and force-fed commercials for Geico and Home Depot by the Smart People in New York and L.A.
Matt Taibbi
#33. The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
John Updike
#34. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
Greg Camp
#35. But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?
John O'Hara
#36. I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.
John Lennon
#37. Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.
Bob Dylan
#38. Song falls silent, music is dumb,
But the air burns with their fragrance,
And white winter, on its knees,
Observes everything with reverent attention.
Anna Akhmatova
#39. Surprisingly, I felt no anger towards him. He was just Man. Man in his basic, rudimentary state, easily moved by powerful emotions like love, lust, anger, greed, and fear, but totally dumb to the finer, acquired emotions like pity, mercy, humour, and justice.
Helon Habila
#40. I know this is stupid, but part of me felt like if I could come see you today, if I could convince you to go with me tonight, then maybe I could still change things. It's dumb, I know. It's not like Levana cares if I, you know, might have actual feelings for someone.
Marissa Meyer
#41. Well maybe it is stupid, but it's also dumb!
Patrick Star
#42. You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#43. I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
Patricia Neal
#44. Three years is a long time." "It is to us. But in the scheme of things - not at all. I mean," said Andy reasonably, "look at some poor dumb bunny like Sabine Ingersoll or that idiot James Villiers. Forrest fucking Longstreet.
Donna Tartt
#45. My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
Thomas Carlyle
#47. A firefly blinked in front of me, and Lucille leaped off the step. It flew higher, but that dumb cat kept reaching for it. She didn't seem to know how far away it really was. Like the stars. Like a lot of things.
Kami Garcia
#48. Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.
Wallace Stegner
#49. There were supposed to be safeguards in place, firewalls to keep the pieces independent. But they have been relaxed for the sake of 'efficiency.'"
They sat in silence for a few moments. Helen spoke first. "People. Dumb." The others nodded in agreement.
Bryce C. Anderson
#50. 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
#51. There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.
Frederick Lenz
#52. The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.
Beatrice Sparks
#53. Okay, listen, I don't know what dumb lines you are used to giving girls so they fall all over you but I just want you to know that I wasn't born yesterday so I am gonna go now and leave you to whatever dumb idiot girl is gonna buy that line.
Andrea Portes
#54. In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.
George Gilder
#55. Uhtred of Steapa - He might be dumb as a parsnip but he knows how to fight.
Bernard Cornwell
#56. How did I get where I am. If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself.
Steve Merrick
#57. Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book can really give your brain a workout, because you spend so much time wondering what incredibly dumb thing the author will say next.
Joe Queenan
#58. I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly ... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.
Lisa Kudrow
#59. I'll tell you what's wrong with dumb-shit patriotism
it's delusional! It signifies nothing but the American need to win
John Irving
#60. Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.
Tod Papageorge
#61. It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
Bill Wyman
#62. Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.
Conan O'Brien
#63. Tip began to nod, then shook his head. I could be eight kinds of crooked, there, piglet, but I ain't never been no kind of dumb.
Daniel Woodrell
#64. Loving someone isn't dumb," Henry said. "I mean, I don't know a whole lot about love, but I don't think it's dumb if it's real.
Heather Davis
#65. You want people to take it seriously, but most people are still going to act like it's just some dumb thing you're doing and ask you about it in the way people do when they don't think you're ever going to finish what you started.
Lauren Barnholdt
#66. Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.
Ray Bradbury
#67. I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.
Kelly Clarkson
#68. When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.
Saadi
#69. A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.
Clint Eastwood
#70. Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
They that are rich in words, in words discover
Walter Raleigh
#71. It just didn't occur to me. But it should have. If your lungs grabbed up all the oxygen, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation wouldn't work. I'm such a dumb-ass for not thinking of it! And my dumbassery almost got me killed! I
Andy Weir
#72. And hey, it's okay to laugh at yourself sometimes, I do dumb things all the time (haha). But when it get's too personal, get your tough skin on and stand firm.
Christina Grimmie
#73. What occurs to me at this second is this: There is a huge world out there. I only know my dumb family and my dumb house and my dumb school and my dumb job. But there is a huge world out there ... and most of it is underwater.
A.S. King
#74. I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice."
"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.
Jodi Picoult
#75. He was a nice guy, Jimmy, but rich or not he was dumb as a bag of retards, and smoking all that weed didn't help.
Chuck Wendig
#76. The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find yourself dumb as a rock, but able to remember your former brains.
John Elder Robison
#77. Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time ... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#78. Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the "common people." But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us. I think they're guilty of a gross mis-statement of fact-we are the uncommon people-
Ralph Ellison
#79. Seve Ballesteros was the best trouble-shot player who ever lived. It didn't matter how far in the woods you put that guy, he'd find a way to get out. But Seve inadvertently put a lot of big numbers on the scorecards of average players, because he inspired them to take dumb chances.
Lee Trevino
#80. They say love is blind, but in your case I'm assuming it's also deaf, dumb, and completely brain dead.
Michelle M. Pillow
#81. I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.
Lori Petty
#82. I collect my thoughts, I choose my words,
Whenever I decide to talk to you.
But...
I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,
Whenever I reach in front of you.
I wonder why it happens to me?
even when my feelings are genuine and true.
Saad Salman
#83. Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
Seneca.
#84. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.
Susanna Clarke
#85. So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It's an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they'll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly.
Michael Kimmel
#86. Some cats are blind and stone deafdeaf some. But ain't no cat wuz ever dumb.
Anthony Euwer
#87. Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.
William Wilson Morgan
#88. It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#89. When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.
George W. Bush
#90. Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
Francis Bacon
#92. The difference between a broadcaster and a host is that a host tells stories and dumb jokes, but a broadcaster can articulate deeper like, you know - things and stuff.
Craig Ferguson
#93. I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.
Sarah Silverman
#94. You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
Ted Cruz
#95. I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.
Roger Ailes
#97. I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how.
Dashiell Hammett
#98. I felt like my vote was the vote that put [Obama] into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be true, but that's how much power it felt like I had.
Puff Daddy
#99. Very clever but dumb at shoothing... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC!
Deyth Banger
#100. Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? Was there no communication in this car? Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?
Hunter S. Thompson
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