Some Idiotic Quotes

#1. And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.

Kristin Hannah

#2. Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Richard Ford

#3. Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

Charlie Hunter

#4. The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real.
-Suite Scarlett

Maureen Johnson

#5. She stepped aside to let him pass. She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat. As she welcomed him silently to the human race, the stab of discovery made her tremble a little. Somebody walked over my grave, she thought, probably Jem on some idiotic errand.

Harper Lee

#6. It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

Albert Einstein

#7. I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

Elvis Costello

#8. All over the world people are now sleeping in their beds, or perhaps they are engaged in some idiotic pastime; and one might easily believe that each in his own way is doing his best to deserve destruction. But that destruction will bring no freedom.

Czeslaw Milosz

#9. The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Simon," I say, and swallow again, "you're being idiotic."
"Because I like this better than fighting?"
"There is no 'this'!" I protest.
"You slept in my arms," he says.
"Fitfully.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. We'd been shooting this idiotic conversation for more than an hour.

Greg Sestero

#12. The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

A. N. Wilson

#14. I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.

Orson Scott Card

#15. Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Noam Chomsky

#16. The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

Robert Webb

#17. The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

Theodor Adorno

#18. What lay at the bottom of their savagery, of course, was their idiotic belief in Calvinism - beyond question the most brutal and barbaric theology ever subscribed to by mortal man, whether in or out of the African bush.

H.L. Mencken

#19. The best part of being married is ... you don't have to explain a lot of things. Those wordless moments when you both know that what you witnessed together is funny, idiotic, or really sweet. Being connected is pretty miraculous.

Paul Reiser

#20. It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

Milla Jovovich

#21. You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

Rhys Ifans

#22. We're headed for Aleph-7. Panty raid. New slang term for the type of operation whose main object was to gather Tauran artifacts, and prisoners if possible. I tried to find out where the term came from, but the one explanation I got was really idiotic.

Joe Haldeman

#23. She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.

Isabel Allende

#24. Live in the moment, just do it - those are phrases thrown around by people who don't know what they mean. Just do it - it's idiotic. You could slap that slogan on a picture of Hitler and it would make as much sense. He did it, all right.

Gregory Galloway

#25. I never imagined that something as solemn and final as death could be this idiotic. It was the keyhole through which I first glimpsed life's madness: the
institutions we believe in will pervert us, our loved ones will fail us, and death is a falling piano.

Anthony Marra

#26. A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish ... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

Patrick DeWitt

#27. Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

Rob Pike

#28. It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Jeanne Moreau

#29. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

Vincent Van Gogh

#30. Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.

William H. Macy

#31. People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.

Ruth Rendell

#32. Luke, some truly idiotic people have said some truly inspired things. Are we supposed to ignore their words because they couldn't live up to them?

Antony John

#33. I feel as cross as a dog," he muttered, clenching his fists. "I hate and despise myself! My God! like some depraved schoolboy, I am making love to another man's wife, writing idiotic letters,

Anton Chekhov

#34. I'm not a bad guy. If only I could stop hoping. If only I could say to my heart: Give up. Be alone forever. There's always opera. There's angel-food cake and neighborhood children caroling, and the look of autumn leaves on a wet roof. But no. My heart's some kind of idiotic fishing bobber.

George Saunders

#35. To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

Anton Chekhov

#36. The training area was set up where the tournament would actually be held, since putting together two structures to serve the same purpose would be at the level of idiotic redundancy reserved for the highest halls of government.

Drew Hayes

#37. It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#38. I wish I possessed your particular brand of optimism," Rahim grumbled.
"And what brand would that be?"
"Idiotic.

Renee Ahdieh

#39. How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

C.S. Lewis

#40. Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic

Marie Lu

#41. I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

Erik Naggum

#42. I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp and be grasped, because it drives me into the arms of idiots who want to crush me. Wonderful, idiotic, crushing in the night. Can't you just crush me in the night?

Howard Barker

#43. Well I don't remember exactly what I called her, but it was something along the lines of sniveling, repulsive, idiotic, backenridden, snaggletoothe, fat-assed bitch with the worst hair in Central Florida and that's saying something.

John Green

#44. There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#45. In the photo, he and some old girlfriend smiled - greasy faces idiotic with hope that the picture would one day remind them that for three seconds they acted happy and thought it final.

Sam Pink

#46. Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

Bernard Cornwell

#47. I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Steve Coogan

#48. I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.

Joan Collins

#49. It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

Erik Naggum

#50. So you haven't read the books." "I'm not really a book person." "That might be the most idiotic thing you've ever said

Rainbow Rowell

#51. Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.

Hakim Bey

#52. If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#53. Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

Mark Calcavecchia

#54. Really the answers I get are idiotic. The entire correspondence of you and Robbie with me should be published. The best title would be Letters from Two Idiots to a Lunatic, I should fancy.

Oscar Wilde

#55. I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.

Fran Lebowitz

#56. I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H.L. Mencken

#57. HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

Rob Brezsny

#58. Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public.

Andy Borowitz

#59. What kind of an idiotic question is that?

Stephenie Meyer

#60. It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

Elvis Costello