Top 60 Quotes About Stupid Ideas
#2. I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
Bam Margera
#3. Out of all of the trillions of years of the Earth's history, you might be alive for one 70 or 80 year period. That ain't so long. You should be out ready to burn this motherfucker to the groun' while you can. But they somehow get you all scared and hung up on these stupid ideas.
L.T. Vargus
#4. Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty - stupid me for going along with it.
Marni Bates
#5. The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.
Richie Norton
#6. She supposed faeries had never adopted the human ideas of giving each other space and having time to get over relationships.
And maybe they were stupid ideas. Maybe love was love and you should take it when you found it.
Cassandra Clare
#7. That's what you promised him, Princess?" he shouted throwing up his hands. "That was your bargain? You would offer yourself to the Unseelie Court?" He turned and punched a tree, sending twigs and icicles to the ground. "Of all the stupid ideas! What is wrong with you?"
-PUCK
Julie Kagawa
#8. I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.
Michael Arad
#10. My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
Gail Carson Levine
#11. People come up with stupid ideas all the time. That's why your detergent tells you not to eat it.
Seanbaby
#12. Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
P. J. O'Rourke
#13. It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
George Santayana
#14. Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?
Richie Norton
#15. There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
Gene Simmons
#16. Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret
a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.
Richie Norton
#17. I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.
Jim DeMint
#19. Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
Gustave Flaubert
#20. Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point.
"No. Just sick of myself."
"Why?"
"Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas.
Andrea Camilleri
#21. Men did stupid things when they got romantic ideas in their heads.
Ronie Kendig
#22. It occurred to me that might not be the best of ideas, but desperate times led to stupid measures.
Robyn Peterman
#23. The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.
Arsene Wenger
#24. The eel's pause gave Kim far too long to weigh how incredibly stupid this impulse was
as if the tattoo covering his wrist weren't reminder enough of how irrevocable some rash ideas could be.
K.A. Mitchell
#25. By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.
Chris Boardman
#26. True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.
James Rozoff
#27. Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
George Orwell
#28. From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.
Douglas Hofstadter
#32. Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke
#33. When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. If someone thinks your ideas, the dreams bubbling up inside of you, are stupid, welcome to the Club.
Richie Norton
#35. He thought of half a dozen ideas before he went to sleep. Ender would be pleased-every one of them was stupid.
Orson Scott Card
#36. There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.
Lawrence Watt-Evans
#37. I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.
Terry Eagleton
#39. The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.
Robbie Robertson
#40. When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.
Kurt Cobain
#41. A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
Mary Augusta Ward
#42. People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#43. I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.
Richard Gere
#44. Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.
Reed Hastings
#45. Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen
#46. It was one of those ideas that doesn't sound stupid until someone says it out loud.
Jason Rekulak
#47. There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.
Poul Anderson
#48. In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.
Orhan Pamuk
#49. There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#50. Was this the stupidest thing I had ever done? Maybe, maybe not. Top ten, at least.
Dennis Liggio
#51. Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.
Michel Gondry
#52. Null Spot the Destroyer still had an imagination full of bad ideas and a pocket full of stupid to spend.
Bobby Adair
#53. I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.
Ragnar Kjartansson
#54. The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
Alain De Botton
#55. I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.
Penn Jillette
#56. The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?
Daniel Radcliffe
#57. Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.
Dennis Crowley
#58. Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.
Elvis Costello
#60. All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.
Bent Larsen
