Quotes About Playing Dumb

#1. The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.

Rachel Maddow

#2. Sometime playing dumb is the only move you've got.

Kendare Blake

#3. One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas

Kelley Armstrong

#4. It's such a fine line with people, whether they're playing dumb or being dumb.

Ben H. Winters

#5. How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?

Claire Messud

#6. The sea wears down cliffs, Emma, and turns them into sand; so love wears us down and breaks our defences. You only do not know how much it means, to have people who will fight for you when it goes wrong.

Cassandra Clare

#7. This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

Harper Lee

#8. Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her

Louisa May Alcott

#9. When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Jim Carrey

#10. Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understang why I hate myself so badly.

Orson Scott Card

#11. Cliches, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

Hannah Arendt

#12. Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

Wavy Gravy

#13. Some people have an enormous capacity for feeling guilt, deserved or otherwise.

Scott Hawkins

#14. 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

#15. So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

Carter G. Woodson

#17. I'd like to do interesting indie films mixed with big, high-paying commercial blockbusters. 'One for you, one for me,' is what they say.

Rhys Wakefield

#18. I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

Lynda Barry

#19. And now the King is dead. Who knows who will replace him? Voting for a monarch! Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Joe Abercrombie

#20. Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind.

Richard Branson

#21. I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

Eli Broad

#22. The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.

James Alison

#23. Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Mae West

#24. I was born in a dream.
I woke up in a wakeful dream.
I am living in a dream.
Life is a miracle in a dream.

Debasish Mridha