Thinking Outside The Idiot Box Quotes

#1. Thinking that we have to always burn our candle at both ends in order to benefit others is perhaps the greatest idiot compassion of all.

Ethan Nichtern

#2. When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.

Ken Livingstone

#3. The worst kind of idiot is the one who doesn't think they're an idiot.

Jeff Garlin

#4. He was an idiot, like all men who did more thinking with their dicks than actually putting them to their natural use.

Pepper Winters

#5. Mabel stops looking murderous and assumes an expression of severe truculence. How the hell, I imagine her thinking, am I supposed to catch things with this idiot in tow?

Helen Macdonald

#6. I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

Hesketh Pearson

#7. I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people.

Peter Jacobson

#8. My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

Anthony Kiedis

#9. I think Anderson Cooper is an opinionated, hypocritical idiot who should be an adult and keep his opinion to himself.

Dina Lohan

#10. The silence stretched. Finally Al added one more sentence that I have been thinking about ever since. 'And if you did it again,' he said, 'we would have to kill you again.' We stared at each other for some time after that; each convinced, I am sure, that the other was a total idiot.

Dan Simmons

#11. I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.

Simon Sinek

#12. Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that,

Bruce Bartlett

#13. They sold me a duvet cover, and I don't have a duvet, I don't think. Then, they started treating me like I'm the idiot. They're like, 'Do you have a comforter?' 'Yeah.' 'Well, you have to protect it!' I had no idea it was under attack.

Alonzo Bodden

#14. 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

#15. I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

Jodi Picoult

#16. The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

Christopher Jones

#17. I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

Jessa Crispin

#18. Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.

Ilana Mercer

#19. Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

Sammy Cahn

#20. You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

Natsuki Takaya

#21. I think it's a great city. I think it's a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot, and I bought 30 cars. And I need to drive those cars, and New York isn't really the place you can do that.

Shaquille O'Neal

#22. He would stare at you without saying a word, and you wouldn't know what he was thinking, and so, like an idiot, you'd tell him things it would have been better to keep to yourself.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#23. The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

Salman Rushdie

#24. There are so many things that you think will look cool but then you look like an idiot!

Anne Burrell

#25. The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

Euripides

#26. Look, I was an idiot. I didn't want people to think that I had a crush, so I decided to give everyone the impression that I truly, honestly hated Madison Harter. For no reason. Just thinking about this makes me want to punch myself in the eyeball.

Jesse Andrews

#27. I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.

Brian Helgeland

#28. I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

Godfrey

#29. You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.

Stephanie Miller

#30. Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because you are talking about getting access to a 1.3 billion people market.

Gordon Wu

#31. You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot.
And you know what?
You're right.

Sonya Sones

#32. I'm mad at your idiot coworker. Not you. I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. Why would you cheat on me?"

"Because you force me to use words like piqued," Alexander replied, deadpan.

S.H. Marr

#33. Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

G.K. Chesterton

#34. Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot

Iain Banks

#35. The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'

Jensen Ackles

#36. You know the part in Cinderella
when everyone goes to the ball
and she sits at home, crying?
It wasn't because her gown was ripped.
It was because she knew
she was an idiot
for thinking
she could grab a prince.

Kelly Bingham

#37. There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.

Nora Roberts

#38. I'm an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.
Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#39. Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?"
"I wasn't," he shouts. "I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost it."
Ethan scoffs. "Yeah, you did."
"I'm an idiot."
"Yeah, you are."
"Shut up.

Laura Kreitzer

#40. 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

#41. The idiot was not a lot of thinking, which is an important move on. Smart people mostly think, consequently never stepped

Bob Sadino

#42. I think there's a little bit of idiot in everybody and I think some people cover it better than others but I think I am very much a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve.

Steve Carell

#43. Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#44. I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one ... Then I thought he was a genus.

Mark Twain

#45. If you think Democrats are going to take away your Bible, You're an idiot. If you think they are going to take away your gun, you're an armed idiot. If you think they're going to take away your gun and give it to a Mexican to kill your God, you're Bill O'Reilly.

Bill Maher

#46. Yeah, I'm thinking it's a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let's call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#47. A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

Billy Wilder

#48. In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.

Conan O'Brien

#49. Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#50. The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot.

Rolf Hochhuth

#51. Days ago, when she faced Khione on the Argo II, Piper had started talking without thinking, following her heart no matter what her brain said. Now she did the same thing. She moved in front of the statue and faced the giant, though the rational part of her screamed: RUN, YOU IDIOT!

Rick Riordan

#52. I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.

Christian B. Anfinsen

#53. 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

#54. A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.

Jack Lynch

#55. Those are some of the most powerful people in the world, and you swamped them in sewage! If you had real friends, they'd have told you that you're an idiot for even thinking about doing that!"

Tom bristled, indignant. "My friends do tell me I'm an idiot. All the time!

S.J. Kincaid

#56. I guess it could be seen as a form of rebellion, but (my dad) is pretty supportive. He's knows I'm just an idiot, so I think that softens it a little bit.

Daniel Tosh

#57. I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.

Tom Hardy