Quotes About Idiotic

#1. When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.

Afrojack

#2. The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

Xavier Dolan

#4. Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat.
-Jace, pg.241-

Cassandra Clare

#5. I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

H.L. Mencken

#6. She stepped aside to let him pass. She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat. As she welcomed him silently to the human race, the stab of discovery made her tremble a little. Somebody walked over my grave, she thought, probably Jem on some idiotic errand.

Harper Lee

#7. Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. I never considered myself an idiot until this very moment,' I said, staring wide-eyed at Eden as we drifted towards it.
'Really?' said Millie, blinking heavily. 'But you've done so many idiotic things already.

Catherine Doyle

#9. Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.

E.F. Benson

#10. There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

Gore Vidal

#11. A cold chill shot down my spine. How the hell did this freaking ass-hat have any position of authority? Power was supposed to be earned, not handed to the first idiotic dimwit willing to abuse it.

Cameo Renae

#12. We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

Joe Klein

#13. [Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'
[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.

Blake Charlton

#14. Build it and they will come' is one of the most idiotic ideas conceived by man.

B.C. Chase

#15. An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition.
It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#16. Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.

John Scalzi

#17. It was the kind of crying that comes from the pit of the stomach and brings a headache with it. The kind that makes a person snort and gasp, and no matter how idiotic you feel or how hard you try, you can't stop.

Robin Jones Gunn

#18. The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..
the worst part is we can't say who is who

Chetan Bhagat

#19. He looks at me like I've just said something absolutely idiotic, which of course I have. Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

John Green

#20. But things are not so simple in life as in our thoughts, nor so rough and ready as in our poor idiotic language; and Harry lies about himself twice over when he employs this niggardly wolf-theory.

Hermann Hesse

#21. One hundred idiots make idiotic plans and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot, whose plan succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he's a genius.

Iain M. Banks

#22. They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

Uta Hagen

#23. We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

Randall Robinson

#24. The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

Robert A. Johnson

#25. But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

Bill Ayers

#26. This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen.

Lionel Shriver

#27. He had never killed anyone before. He still felt the same. The pistol had done the killing, not him. The man had set if off himself, as a consequence of his own idiotic actions.

Alan Dean Foster

#28. How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

Katherine Mansfield

#29. People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

Miranda Hart

#30. We move in response to our conversation partner's face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.

John M. Gottman

#31. It was with deep, idiotic relief that I leaned on that fleshy, humid, barn-yard fool.

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. Poor Tom did not know and could not learn that dissembling successfully is one of the creative joys of a businessman. To indicate enthusiasm was to be idiotic.

John Steinbeck

#33. All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

Jean Rhys

#34. We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

John Malkovich

#35. Love is very difficult to understand. And do you know why? Because love is the most idiotic thing in the universe, Tommy, but also the most important. That's why it's so hard to understand.
-pg 151

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#36. Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#37. But grief, he'd discovered, was not an experience you went through once and then 'moved on' (as the idiotic popular phrase would have it). The truth was that it came over you in successive waves - waves separated by periods of numbness, periods of forgetfulness, periods of ordinary living.

John Verdon

#38. On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?

Robert Green Ingersoll

#39. I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

Inga Muscio

#40. The vast majority is sociologically intellectual and respectful but realistically idiotic and despicable.

Daniel Marques

#41. You ok?" he said.
No, I'm not. I'm lonely and exhausted and no kind of mother and on top of all that migrained with fucking idiotic desire.
"I'm fine," I said, and opened the passenger door.

Glen Duncan

#42. I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.

Jimmy Swaggart

#43. The world may think it idiotic,
Nor care at all we're symbiotic,
But I will say at once and twice:
I find it nice. I find it nice.

Edward Gorey

#44. Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get frequent muscle strains and ligament tears, and the protective padding really doesn't do all that much to absorb the blunt trauma.

Chris Kluwe

#45. Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.

Eric Frank Russell

#46. I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

Albert Einstein

#47. I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#48. Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

Herman Melville

#49. No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

H.L. Mencken

#50. He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic; the magic of the think-machine gods, whose cult has one dogma - we cannot make a mistake.

Christopher Isherwood

#51. The current fashions are impractical for an active person. Skirts so tight one must toddle like an infant, bodices boned so firmly it is impossible to draw a deep breath ... . And bustles! Of all the idiotic contrivances foisted upon helpless womankind, the bustle is certainly the worst.

Elizabeth Peters

#52. You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

Rhys Ifans

#53. [Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

Albert Camus

#54. You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were.

Jim Butcher

#55. People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

Charlie Munger

#56. An idiotic vitch like you
Must rrroast upon the barbecue!

Roald Dahl

#57. Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Alafair Burke

#58. Idiotic Lord Blakley," she groused.

"And how many tmes have I said it?" said a voice. "It's 'idiotic Gareth' to you.

Courtney Milan

#59. Did you run any of this by Curran?"
"I told him I was about to do something idiotic and dangerous, and he told me to go ahead and let him know if he could help in any way."
"I don't understand your relationship.

Ilona Andrews

#60. Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

Harry S. Truman

#61. All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Mark Twain

#62. I know you well enough, you are the old fool Van Helsing. I wish you would take yourself and your idiotic brain theories somewhere else. Damn all thick-headed Dutchmen!

Bram Stoker

#63. That whole cellular idea is idiotic. Who wants to carry around a phone all the time? I don't want people calling me wherever I am.

Phil Taylor

#64. Goddamn Homer and his idiotic story of the Sirens' song.

S.J. Harper

#65. Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#66. I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Margaret Mead

#67. How could an article about computers begin with such an idiotic opening line: Where is Slovenia?

Paulo Coelho

#68. I'm not a bad guy. If only I could stop hoping. If only I could say to my heart: Give up. Be alone forever. There's always opera. There's angel-food cake and neighborhood children caroling, and the look of autumn leaves on a wet roof. But no. My heart's some kind of idiotic fishing bobber.

George Saunders

#69. Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.

Volkmar Sigusch

#70. I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Evelyn Waugh

#71. I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

Elvis Costello

#72. I smiled then - a big, toothy idiotic smile - and Serena didn't see it. Her eyes were closed, which was good, because I was turning into one big vagina.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#73. Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.

Ann Coulter

#74. As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Michael Lewis

#75. I feel as cross as a dog," he muttered, clenching his fists. "I hate and despise myself! My God! like some depraved schoolboy, I am making love to another man's wife, writing idiotic letters,

Anton Chekhov

#76. Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.

Aleksandar Hemon

#77. Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God.

Victor Hugo

#78. The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

#79. The old idealistic republicans used to found democracy on the idea that all men were equally intelligent. Believe me, the sane and enduring democracy is founded on the fact that all men are equally idiotic.

G.K. Chesterton

#80. Gertje was right. To be an American was to be blessed with a kind of idiotic but very useful innocence.

Laurie Colwin

#81. Luke, some truly idiotic people have said some truly inspired things. Are we supposed to ignore their words because they couldn't live up to them?

Antony John

#82. You wanted happiness, I can't blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you're not miserable.

Richard Siken

#83. At a rear window I hear the heart-rendering cries of my captive kind, plus a lot of yammering from the idiotic dogs, who will raise about the same ruckus for a simple rabies shot as they would for the end of the world.
--Midnight Louie

Carole Nelson Douglas

#84. And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.

Orson Scott Card

#85. This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service.

John Hirsch

#86. It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

Albert Einstein

#87. The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

Sean Covey

#88. I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Joss Whedon

#89. Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic?

Mark Helprin

#90. A Schwalling is when he does something unintentionally idiotic that makes him look stupid,

Michael Lewis

#91. The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.

Jeph Jacques

#92. You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid

Tony La Russa

#93. I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's ... might be a good idea.

Luis Von Ahn

#94. 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

#95. The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration ... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

Frank Harris

#96. How does anyone ever know whether love is enough? It's an idiotic question. Like, if you fall in love, if you're that lucky, who are you to even ask whether it's enough to make you happy?

Rainbow Rowell

#97. Is it possible that that insanity called love and jealousy does exist, and not only in the idiotic books of the ancients? What seems most strange is that I, I! ... Equations, formulae, figures, and suddenly this! I can't understand it, I can't!

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#98. It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#99. To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#100. For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

Sloane Crosley