Quotes

Jerry Lewis

2010-10-29T12:16:00.006+05:00

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Manuel Puig

2010-10-29T12:16:00.004+05:00

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

Anthony Bourdain

2010-10-29T12:16:00.002+05:00

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot.

Michael Vartan

2010-10-29T12:15:00.003+05:00

I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.

Leo Szilard

2010-10-29T12:15:00.001+05:00

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Eddie Izzard

2010-10-29T12:14:00.003+05:00

I'm a one-man idiot.

Hugh Leonard

2010-10-29T12:14:00.001+05:00

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Rachel Hunter

2010-10-29T12:13:00.005+05:00

I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

Sally Kellerman

2010-10-29T12:13:00.003+05:00

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

Michael Moore

2010-10-29T12:13:00.001+05:00

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

Vince Gill

2010-10-29T12:12:00.002+05:00

I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.

Joe Eszterhas

2010-10-29T12:11:00.001+05:00

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

Ben Kingsley

2010-10-29T12:10:00.004+05:00

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

William Hung

2010-10-29T12:10:00.001+05:00

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

Candice Bergen

2010-10-29T12:09:00.003+05:00

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

Steve Martin

2010-10-29T12:09:00.001+05:00

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

Anne Sullivan

2010-10-29T12:08:00.003+05:00

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Douglas Adams

2010-10-29T12:08:00.001+05:00

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Ronnie Corbett

2010-10-29T12:07:00.003+05:00

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

George Carlin

2010-10-29T12:07:00.001+05:00

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

John Updike

2010-10-29T12:06:00.003+05:00

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Johann Most

2010-10-29T12:06:00.001+05:00

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

Mark Twain

2010-10-29T12:05:00.001+05:00

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Peter Lynch

2010-10-29T12:04:00.005+05:00

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Samuel Goldwyn

2010-10-29T12:04:00.003+05:00

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

David Hilbert

2010-10-29T12:04:00.001+05:00

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Abe Lemons

2010-10-29T12:03:00.002+05:00

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Jeff Ament

2010-10-29T11:57:00.003+05:00

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

Jimmy Fallon

2010-10-29T11:57:00.001+05:00

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

Blake Edwards

2010-10-29T11:56:00.001+05:00

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

Sherilyn Fenn

2010-10-29T11:54:00.000+05:00

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

John Lennon

2010-10-29T11:53:00.002+05:00

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Friedrich Nietzsche

2010-10-29T11:52:00.004+05:00

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

2010-10-29T11:52:00.001+05:00

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Kevin Bacon

2010-10-29T11:51:00.002+05:00

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Kevin Bacon

2010-10-29T11:50:00.004+05:00

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Anton Chekhov

2010-10-29T11:50:00.002+05:00

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Katharine Hepburn

2010-10-29T11:49:00.003+05:00

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Jason Zebehazy

2010-10-29T11:49:00.001+05:00

A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks.

Igor Stravinsky

2010-10-29T11:48:00.002+05:00

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Ralph Marston

2010-10-10T22:15:00.001+05:00

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Andy Partridge

2010-10-10T22:14:00.001+05:00

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

Alexander Haig

2010-10-10T22:13:00.005+05:00

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Sargent Shriver

2010-10-10T22:13:00.003+05:00

Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.

John Robinson

2010-10-10T22:13:00.001+05:00

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

Paul Wellstone

2010-10-10T22:12:00.003+05:00

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

Hamilton Jordan

2010-10-10T22:12:00.001+05:00

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

John Warnock

2010-10-10T22:11:00.005+05:00

We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it.

Joe Lieberman

2010-10-10T22:11:00.003+05:00

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

David Axelrod

2010-10-10T22:11:00.001+05:00

We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.

Hugh Prather

2010-10-10T22:10:00.005+05:00

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Edwidge Danticat

2010-10-10T22:10:00.003+05:00

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

Maurice Jarre

2010-10-10T22:10:00.001+05:00

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

Charles Bronson

2010-10-10T22:09:00.005+05:00

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

E. Stanley Jones

2010-10-10T22:09:00.003+05:00

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

Genevieve Gorder

2010-10-10T22:09:00.001+05:00

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

Sumner Redstone

2010-10-10T22:08:00.007+05:00

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Andrea Jung

2010-10-10T22:08:00.005+05:00

Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.

Mary Douglas

2010-10-10T22:08:00.001+05:00

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

Anna Lindh

2010-10-10T22:07:00.002+05:00

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

Eric Hoffer

2010-10-10T22:06:00.005+05:00

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Dale Carnegie

2010-10-10T22:06:00.003+05:00

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Phyllis Diller

2010-10-10T22:06:00.001+05:00

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

John Cameron

2010-10-10T22:05:00.003+05:00

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

Garry Trudeau

2010-10-10T22:05:00.001+05:00

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

Leon Trotsky

2010-10-10T22:04:00.003+05:00

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Kurt Vonnegut

2010-10-10T22:04:00.001+05:00

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Rocco Buttiglione

2010-10-10T22:03:00.003+05:00

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

John Phillips

2010-10-10T22:03:00.001+05:00

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

Jean Alesi

2010-10-10T22:02:00.003+05:00

It wasn't all frustration. I've had a lot of good times with Ferrari as well.

Richard Helms

2010-10-10T22:02:00.001+05:00

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

Clancy Brown

2010-10-10T22:01:00.004+05:00

It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

King Hussein I

2010-10-10T22:01:00.002+05:00

It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.

Lech Walesa

2010-10-10T22:00:00.004+05:00

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Chen Ning Yang

2010-10-10T22:00:00.002+05:00

In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

Parminder Nagra

2010-10-10T22:00:00.000+05:00

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

Alan Perlis

2010-10-08T23:53:00.005+05:00

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

Tony Robbins

2010-10-08T23:53:00.003+05:00

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Allan Carr

2010-10-08T23:53:00.001+05:00

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Peter Shaffer

2010-10-08T23:52:00.005+05:00

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Steven Gerrard

2010-10-08T23:52:00.003+05:00

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

James E. Rogers

2010-10-08T23:52:00.001+05:00

I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.

Bradley Whitford

2010-10-08T23:51:00.003+05:00

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

Judd Nelson

2010-10-08T23:51:00.001+05:00

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

Dick Dale

2010-10-08T23:50:00.003+05:00

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Temple Grandin

2010-10-08T23:50:00.001+05:00

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

Steve Israel

2010-10-08T23:49:00.001+05:00

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

Bruce Nauman

2010-10-08T23:48:00.001+05:00

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

Mordecai Richler

2010-10-08T23:47:00.001+05:00

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Bo Bennett

2010-10-08T23:46:00.001+05:00

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Emile Lahud

2010-10-08T23:43:00.004+05:00

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Emile Lahud

2010-10-08T23:43:00.001+05:00

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Dorothea Brande

2010-10-08T23:42:00.003+05:00

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorthea Brande

2010-10-08T23:42:00.001+05:00

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Chuck Noll

2010-10-08T23:41:00.005+05:00

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Aldous Huxley

2010-10-08T23:41:00.002+05:00

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

2010-10-08T23:39:00.001+05:00

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Elizabeth Bowen

2010-10-08T23:38:00.002+05:00

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bernard Cornwell

2010-10-08T23:37:00.000+05:00

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.

George Bernard Shaw

2010-10-02T20:37:00.003+05:00

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.