Quotes About Stupid Adults

#1. Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige ...
... and erase those girls who try to apply their patronizing psychology theories on us ...
... and those stupid adults who only judge us by our outward appearances ...
We'll erase them all from our consciousness.

Bisco Hatori

#3. I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.

Stan Lee

#4. You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

Ram Dass

#5. I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.

Mary Lambert

#6. The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

Mignon McLaughlin

#7. Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts ... they lie unquestioned, uncombined
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun, but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#8. Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.

Joanna Lumley

#9. Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist."

(Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009)

Lev Grossman

#10. Who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Virginia Woolf

#11. It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

Doris Lessing

#12. We've got to stop being the stupid party ... It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.

Bobby Jindal

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

John Scalzi

#14. The things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

Patricia Wentworth

#15. BubbaHarold - "One of the most unique takes on true crime ever.

Electa Graham

#16. Quit playing Marco Polo with my ass, Christopher Columbus. This isn't an exploration, so you aren't putting your ding dong in this donut hole

B.B. Reid

#17. My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums ...

Mary Oliver

#18. If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.

Joe Dante

#19. I think Miami is such a beautiful, sexy, gorgeous place. I love the people there.

Minka Kelly

#20. I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Persis Khambatta

#21. I can't help it; this isn't like you at all. I know the blood exchange changes things - including mood and body chemistry - but this is beyond any kind of scientific explanation.

J.A. Saare

#22. The American Dream has been defined in dollar signs and square footage.

Joshua Becker

#23. I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is.

Natsuo Kirino

#24. It's stupid not to communicate what you know to the adults. They're only trying to protect us. And as far as the no-secrets zone, I can't agree to that. I don't even really know you guys, so why would I tell you my secrets? No way.

Cynthia Hand

#25. Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe only adults were stupid enough to think they knew exactly who they were.

Anna Quindlen

#26. Why do we do this to ourselves?" I asked, mostly to myself. "We're grown adults. Love makes us so stupid.

Jamie McGuire

#27. Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Sun Tzu