Quotes About The Village Idiot

#1. Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

Nostradamus

#2. I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.

Liane Moriarty

#3. This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

Kent Haruf

#4. You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Stanley Kubrick

#5. How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

Sara Shepard

#6. I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished.

Francine Prose

#7. Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

Lewis Mumford

#8. You're like the cute version of the village idiot.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. When I was a boy I used to dream of becoming
the village idiot.
I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the
happy idiot
able to get food easily
... and easy sympathy,
a planned confusion of not too much love or effort.
some would claim that I have succeeded.

Charles Bukowski

#10. Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Thomas Sowell

#11. I'd be at work, where people respected my opinions," said Nick. "And then I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot. I'd pack the dishwasher the wrong way. I'd pick the wrong clothes for the children. I stopped offering to help. It wasn't worth the criticism.

Liane Moriarty

#12. I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

Ada Yonath

#13. When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Joan Van Ark

#14. Minimalists are people who only own what they really need on a regular basis.

Emile Joy

#15. I've stolen a lot. Let me think about the best thing I've stolen. Stolen a lot of hearts.

Rob Huebel

#16. He delivered the mail, ran our modest recycling program, and maintained our handful of public buildings. He also occasionally fell asleep while driving a snowplough, but he was such a cheerful guy it was hard to stay pissed at him. Besides every village needs an idiot.

Molly Harper

#17. If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Gore Vidal

#18. Sig is like that. She tends to have an "it takes a village" attitude toward monster hunting. I have mostly hunted supernatural predators alone, partly because I had no choice and partly because I'm an idiot.

Elliott James

#19. What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

Frantz Fanon

#20. My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?

Frederick Lenz

#21. I'd love to go out with you, but I'd hate to deprive some village of its idiot.

Lois Greiman

#22. Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

John Adams

#23. Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Jim Butcher

#24. After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

Donald Hall

#25. Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that ... it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they're wrong.

Thomas Sowell

#26. The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. It's not possible that women can be at par with men,

Robert Mugabe

#28. I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

Robert Rodriguez

#29. What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?

Tanya Huff

#30. Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?

Melanie Dickerson

#31. Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

Russell Lynes

#32. A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.

Linda Howard

#33. A village idiot, in the literal sense, who really loves the truth, even when he only babbles, is in his thinking infinitely superior to Aristotle. He is infinitely nearer to Plato than Aristotle ever was.

Simone Weil

#34. Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

Franz Kafka