Numbskull Quotes

#1. You're the star," said Tristran, comprehension dawning. "And you're a clodpoll," said the girl, bitterly, "and a ninny, a numbskull, a lackwit and a coxcomb!

Neil Gaiman

#2. Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion of world economy, is so far advanced that racial purity can have meaning only to a numbskull.

Wilhelm Reich

#3. The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on the head with a sledgehammer and Curly says, "ow" and Moe says, "Serves you right Numbskull", you can say that's because they're separate beings, and that's true.

Brad Warner

#4. The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

Cliff Martinez

#5. Great, numbskull. Just bloody great. You've already managed to piss off the Queen. What's next on your agenda, setting fire to Disneyland?

Thea Harrison

#6. The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

Christine Quinn

#7. I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won't go away ...

Gabe A. Lopez

#8. It don't stop 'til the casket drop.

Tupac Shakur

#9. She was brave from wine and unseasonable sunshine and the newfound closeness of home.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#10. The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.

John Legend

#11. The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

Wendy Liebman

#13. Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

Karl Barth