Ignorant Folks Quotes

#1. Bubbles form when too many people expect values to go up forever. Bubbles burst when there are no longer enough excessively optimistic and ignorant folks to fuel them. And there are signs that this is beginning to happen already where education is concerned.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds

#2. The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling. But

L.M. Montgomery

#3. When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Barack Obama

#4. In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.

Neal Stephenson

#5. The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

Fanny Kemble

#6. In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)

Robert Anton Wilson

#7. I have found that people never love the way they say they do. They can't. They are just people. Full of lies and sentiment and fear.

Laura Ruby

#8. My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

Jaron Lanier

#9. You do not know how I have yearned to hear those words.

H.P. Mallory

#10. I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#11. A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Elaine Dundy

#12. All of me, Ava. Every single piece.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#13. People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#14. Don't get cocky, ice-boy. I've been playing with humans since long before you ever thought of becoming one.

Julie Kagawa

#15. All bayonets are bad.

W.S. Gilbert

#16. Dude, we gotta work on your material. Hell, all you need is a little black moustache to twirl and go 'Muahahahaha' while you're at it.

Tessa McFionn

#17. I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I'm doing.

Peter Hook

#18. She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know.

Alice Walker

#19. There is one basic cause of all effects.

Giordano Bruno

#20. Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Aberjhani