Dumb Quotes - Page 16

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

She was always young at heart, kind of dumb, kind of smart, and I loved her so.

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

Heterosexuality as we know it is so plain boring, dumb, dull and artificial, it has to be imposed upon people, otherwise they don't take it.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

Cuz the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

If I did that, I'd be sticking my head in a moose.

I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people.

Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?

All I'm asking for is what I want.