Quotes About 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. 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

#7. 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 But no longer unpublished.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

#8. 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

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

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Tanya Huff

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Thomas Sowell

#20. While it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.

Iris Origo

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

Lois Greiman

#22. I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

Gary Busey

#24. 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

#25. I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

Oscar Wilde

#26. 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

#27. Voldimort wuz wearing a blak leather Jackson, blak tight jeans and fishnet pantz. He looked so sexah I almost had an orgy!!!!

Tara Gilesbie

#28. If you have a purpose in life, you can feel six inches tall.

Terry Pratchett

#29. Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.

Roger Scruton

#30. how "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others. Those

Eckhart Tolle

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

Jim Butcher

#32. If you don't hurt others it doesn't mean you love them but it simply reveals that you are loving.

Na

#33. Confidence is not based on you having all the resources needed to take care of yourself; confidence is based upon the truth that God is faithful.

Roy Lessin

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

Russell Lynes

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

Linda Howard

#36. The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of races and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#37. We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.

Anais Nin

#38. My tone must have seemed hostile, even though I wasn't angry or offended; there was just a touch of sarcasm. He tried to respond but he did so in an awkward, muddled way, half in dialect, half in Italian. He said he was sure that his mother was wandering around Naples as usual.

Elena Ferrante

#39. Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

Bridget Moynahan