Top 100 Sayings About An Idiot
#1. Joey, like an idiot, began clucking and calling to the calf, which only startled it into motion, and it raced off to join its parents.
"Moron," said Avani in a low voice.
"Oh, come on. What's the matter, Canada, did they confiscate your sense of humor at the airport?
Jessica Khoury
#2. She was an idiot. An idiot holding a pie in his garbage can. He probably thought she was a stalker. Or crazy.
Jamie Farrell
#3. She's a veela!" he said hoarsely to Harry.
"Of course she isn't!" said Hermione tartly. "I don't see anyone else gaping at her like an idiot!
J.K. Rowling
#4. Whoever said crime doesn't pay is an idiot. It pays great, which is why there is so much of it.
Jay Crownover
#5. Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
Margaret Atwood
#6. We should take her with us."
Cinder glared. "Are you crazy?"
"Crazy in love. She's gorgeous."
"You're an idiot. Help me carry her to the living room.
Marissa Meyer
#7. They both make growling sounds and gnash their teeth as they wrestle. I don't know what to do, so I just stand there like an idiot, holding a basket of cock cookies watching two dudes fight it out.
Alexa Riley
#8. To every rule there is an exception - and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
Vera Nazarian
#9. Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.
Eric Weiner
#10. Ugly on the inside!" she'd screamed. "I could never love you!"
She truly hadn't fallen for him.
For him.
Which indicated that she was an idiot. He had no time or patience for them.
Kresley Cole
#12. Every exchange making him feel like an idiot, making him draw his spine up straight and making him fiddle with his hair, and all he wanted to do was to see her naked on the floor. Not brutal, not unkind, enraptured.
Robert Goolrick
#13. Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
Margaret Cavendish
#14. You always feel the ground rumbling beneath your feet, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Mostly because it is rumbling beneath your feet, and there is always someone who is coming up behind you who is as good, younger, and, at least as you perceive it, has more energy and more nimbleness than you.
Scott Rudin
#15. One idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot.
Yssubramanyam
#16. Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can believe in eternal punishment.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#17. Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot.
Emma Donoghue
#18. My son's an idiot. He sprained his ankle playing golf. He fell off the ballwasher.
Rodney Dangerfield
#19. You're very lovely, gatita."
Her brows pulled together, and she gave him a skeptical stare.
"Do not look at your master as if he's an idiot.
Cherise Sinclair
#20. Anyone who hasn't been nervous, or hasn't choked somewhere down the line, is an idiot.
Cary Middlecoff
#21. On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
Robert Green Ingersoll
#22. It was Wilbur Larch who was the first man in Maine to call a television what it was: an idiot box.
John Irving
#23. And I stand in the hallway, alone, grinning like an idiot.
Veronica Roth
#24. I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
Calvin Harris
#26. They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot.
Norma McCorvey
#27. A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.
Martin Luther
#28. Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?
Mira Grant
#29. Most people call it The Book of the Dead," he told me. "Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It's like an Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife.
Rick Riordan
#30. I may be an idiot," he said gravely, "but I would never eat a hamburger cooked by a clown.
Anthony Marra
#31. Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
Bjork
#32. I spent that whole damn day wandering around the city trying to figure out how to tell how much I loved you without sounding like an idiot.
S.C. Stephens
#33. You see the dilemma?" Ham asked. "I see an idiot," Breeze mumbled.
Brandon Sanderson
#34. I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.
Emily Mortimer
#35. An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he does nothing. A genius, on the other hand, is content to do nothing, no matter what people think, if he can't find anything worth doing.
Tom Upton
#36. I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.
Zachary Lazar
#38. I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."
Glenn Beck
#39. Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
Ambrose Bierce
#40. I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...
C.S. Lewis
#41. My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.
David Hewson
#42. A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.
Demetri Martin
#43. I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
Paloma Faith
#44. Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality.
Tom Cruise
#45. Tell me again why you have barbecues in the middle of winter, bro?"
Nate looked at him like he was an idiot. "We like steak.
Pamela Clare
#46. God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#48. He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.
Mike Judge
#49. No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use.
Knut Hamsun
#50. I am not an idiot," I say. "Which is why I know that it's a little weird that, of all the girls you could have chosen, you chose me. So if you're just looking for ... um, you know ... that ... " "What? Sex?" He scowls at me.
Veronica Roth
#51. Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot
in this case, my brother, Shaun
deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.
Mira Grant
#52. One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
John Green
#53. Dad." He flicked a glance toward her, but his eyes returned to the paper. "I know Drew's kind of an idiot, and I know better than to put any trust in him yet.
Lauren Gilley
#54. Along the brittle treacherous bright streets
of memory comes my heart,singing like
an idiot,whispering like a drunken man
E. E. Cummings
#55. If you stood at the other end of the universe seeking resolution you would just end up feeling like an idiot for trying.
Brian McGreevy
#56. And she was an idiot. Very nosy, but no brains, none at all. It's not a good combination,
J.K. Rowling
#57. It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.
Bill Maher
#59. Some people have different ways than yours of having fun. You can't judge 'em, you can't dismiss 'em, and you can't say, 'what an idiot, what a food.' You just have to accept their truth of
their harmony with what they wanna do in their heart. As long as it's not hurting anyone.
Gary Busey
#61. You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.
Blake Lively
#62. When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things.
Chris Hardwick
#63. One is always willfully absurd ... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.
Galen Beckett
#64. Sasha tipped back her head to look at him. She made a point of doing this now and then, just to remind Coz that she wasn't an idiot - she knew the question had a right answer. She and Coz were collaborators, writing a story whose end had already been determined: she would get well.
Jennifer Egan
#65. Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.
Nicole Sullivan
#66. Rhiannon's Law #22. You can't lie to yourself, so don't bother trying. Doing so only multiplies your douchebag level to the umpteenth power and confirms what others have been saying for years - that you are an idiot.
J.A. Saare
#67. You need to think with your head, not only your heart."
He couldn't help but snort softly at that. "You think I'm using my heart right now?"
Brion rolled his eyes. "Yes. And in case there's any doubt, your heart is an idiot just like the rest of you ...
Morgan Rhodes
#68. You just called me an idiot and told me you need me in the same breath, I laughed. God, she was amazing.
Genna Rulon
#69. My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.
Stephen Colbert
#70. Though every community is different, my personal rule is pretty much the same: It's O.K. to feel like an idiot going in as long as you don't sound like an idiot coming out.
Katherine Boo
#71. I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.
Jessa Crispin
#72. I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?
Henny Youngman
#74. Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.
John Waters
#75. I was walking Shirley and-you know how Shirley is an idiot?" I asked him.
"Sure.
Sara Massa
#76. I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending
Jodi Picoult
#77. Actually, no, I wasn't thinking about STDs. Because apparently, I'm an idiot. Turns out, I was more worried about babies than I was rabies.
Addison Moore
#78. A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#80. Think of your woods and orchards without birds!
Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams
As in an idiot's brain remembered words
Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#81. There is a fine line between a genius and an idiot and that line is possibility.
Ni Mao
#82. I'm an idiot. I'm ten times an idiot. God, I could just die." Then I forged ahead because the last comment was too close for comfort these days. "Not die die, as in not-breathing die, but die figuratively, if you know what I mean." Lee was grinning.
Kristen Ashley
#83. He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher ... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams
#84. Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound & query signifying nothing
William Shakespeare
#85. Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.
Steve Coogan
#86. Watch over Honoria, will you? See she doesn't marry an idiot. (Daniel Smythe-Smith)
Julia Quinn
#87. Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that,
Bruce Bartlett
#88. Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.
Robert Webb
#89. I don't belong with you. I've been an idiot all the way
Ray Bradbury
#90. We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.
Eoin Colfer
#92. Waiting for the end of innocence. And an idiot is waiting for the end of idiocy too, but he's ugly doing it. So each ends himself in the meeting, in exchange for a merging.
Theodore Sturgeon
#93. I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.
Marlon Wayans
#94. Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.
Matt Rees
#95. I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.
Agatha Christie
#96. they just had big bones rather than stand up an' say - I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.' An' he was right. I've bin an idiot. I'm not botherin' with
J.K. Rowling
#97. I don't know if I'm particularly funny, I mean one of my legs is shorter than the other one, it makes everything look very awkward, so I can just pretty much look like an idiot, but I don't know whether I can be like witty. It could be a problem.
Robert Pattinson
#98. Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot ...
Alain Prost
#99. Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they're talking about.
Ruth Reichl
#100. Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
Andrew Dominik