Great Idiot Quotes

#1. Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown ... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

Maurice Sendak

#2. Whoever said exercise makes you feel great is a raging idiot. I don't feel great. I feel like throwing up.

Gayla Drummond

#3. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. I've had great success being a total idiot.

Jerry Lewis

#5. The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography.

Jeffery Deaver

#6. I think it's a great city. I think it's a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot, and I bought 30 cars. And I need to drive those cars, and New York isn't really the place you can do that.

Shaquille O'Neal

#7. Whoever said crime doesn't pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it.

Jay Crownover

#8. Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment.

Fannie Flagg

#9. One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

John Green

#10. America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot,

Eric Stonestreet

#11. I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Hugh Leonard

#12. Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Thomas Sowell

#13. 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

#14. It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world.

George Edward Woodberry

#15. Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin

#16. Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.

Klaus Kinski

#17. Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

David Bonderman

#18. Samson becomes a great and terrible warrior when, and only when, the Spirit of God comes upon him. The rest of the time he's just short of an idiot. What does this story tell us about the God whose Spirit this is?

John Eldredge

#19. I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.

Mel Brooks

#20. You are not my high school crush, idiot."
"Great. I can die happy, then.

Rachel Caine

#21. To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

Lena Olin

#22. The Great White Male is rap's Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy.

David Foster Wallace

#23. As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon

#24. The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on the editing room floor, so it gives you a lot more room to experiment I guess. But I really enjoy doing it. I'm very comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

Isla Fisher

#25. You must think I'm a total idiot."
"Nah. I am starting to wonder if you're trying to beat Keefe's record for biggest interspeciesial episode- and if you are, I'm pretty sure you've won. The Great Gulon Incident was epic, but it didn't almost start a war.

Shannon Messenger

#26. You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

Al Jourgensen

#27. Tobin turned to Angie. "I'm such an idiot. Why didn't you remind me?"
She smiled drowsily. "That you're an idiot? Okay: you're an idiot."
"Oh that's great, thanks," he said. She giggled.

Lauren Myracle

#28. If there is one thing I know, it's that with every great achievement in our lives, there is an insecure idiot hiding around the corner waiting to take a baseball bat to it.

Dan Pearce

#29. The greatest moments are right in front of you.

Matthew Knisely

#30. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

Edward Conlon

#31. I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

Sally Kellerman

#32. When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

Zoe Sugg