Quotation Explorer - 'Dumb'

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb. - Hyman George Rickover
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. - George Washington
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
CALVIN:When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment. - Bill Watterson
A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward. - Michael Perry
I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too. - Steve Martin
Thanks God that he created me dumb and crazy enough to believe that I can create and invent in other than what i studied in and what they want me to be. - Hisham Fawzi
Beauty fades; dumb is forever.
Do u sometimes feel dumb or duffer are inadequate words to describe some people?How about DUMFER? - EverSkeptic
Always follow your brain, because your heart is dumb as shit - Steve Shook
No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country. - George S. Patton Jr.
I am the love.I am drowning in your love.I am drunk with your love.I am a dumb for your love.I am crazy about your love. I dream at night about love.I know that you're my love, but I forgot how to lovebecause I become the love. - Debasish Mridha
Emotion... a weird sense of human....strong handling make us numb....loose handling make us dumb... - Upasana Banerjee
I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages! - Oliver Gaspirtz
Radio is dumb until the listener hears what radio says - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head. - Peter Thiel
All human behaviour, language, thoughts, feelings, actions, and consciousness emerge from this massively interconnected network of neurons. Each neuron is pretty dumb; it either fires in a certain situation or it doesn’t, but out of this mass dumbness comes great cleverness. - Trevor Harley
Crystal then read the red sticker out loud, "Dangerous, do not open." We both stared at each other for a moment. I was trying to figure out why a dumb book about power was dangerous - Dominic Tomasi
I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance. - Kelli Jae Baeli
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness. - Thomas Bartholin
Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts... - Raphael Kadushin
I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him.If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence blossoms like tumors on our lipsit is because I hear a man climb stairsand clear his throat outside our door. - Leonard Cohen
I am a dumb piece of meatand I rot everydaymy flesh gives a rotting smelland people say it's the smell of lifeand they come to meand watch me rotand get happy and upset and annoyed and disgusted and maybe sometimes feelcompassionbut they don't realize they are rotting too. - Daul Kim
The thing about Smart People is that they seem like Crazy people to Dumb people! - John Cameron Smith
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate. - Ambrose Bierce
My grandmother always told me: beauty fades but dumb is forever. - Judge Judy Sheindlin
I collect my thoughts, I choose my words, Whenever I decide to talk to you.But...I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,Whenever I reach in front of you.I wonder why it happens to me?even when my feelings are genuine and true. - Saad Salman
Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics. - Vladimir Odoevsky
Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.. - Geoffrey Hill
A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight. - A.E. Stallings
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb. - Joseph Joubert
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy
Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while. - Michael Bassey Johnson
dumb cunts vote for whoever throws the biggest promotional budget at them - Sophie Cooke
There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem. - Michael Kurland
PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; - Walter Raleigh
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty. - Orson Scott Card
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. - Henry Kissinger
They are 1% rich because they aren't 99% dumb - Piyush Negi
A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. - William Shakespeare
…breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan…and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us. - Glenn Duncan
Technology has given the dumb a tongue - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that. - Bill Cosby
No, I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb, and I also know I'm not blonde.
If you thought of it, don't be fooled into thinking it is a dumb Idea. - Unarine Ramaru
The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy. - Emma Watson
The problem is, that no matter where you work there's going to be people that are so dumb you wonder how the hell they remember to breathe every morning. - Lillian Strange
[...] the past century has shown that dumb minds can do extraordinary damage. - Daniel Pipes
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. - Anna Sewell
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart. - Douglas Adams
I'd rather have fun, being young and being dumb, than be saved a spot in heaven - The Cab
The new dumb, is now wisdom. - Anthony Liccione
If they're dumb enough to walk away be , strong enough to let them go - Various
The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb. - V. Alexander
Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left! - Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara W. Tuchman
Then others for breath of words respect,Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. - William Shakespeare
...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit? - Barbara Kingsolver
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. - Edward Abbey
People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water. - David Bowie
To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind, and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound. - Belsebuub
A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains. - Michael Bassey Johnson
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. - Richard Feynman
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. - Bill Watterson
We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in the world' - she's talking about cannibals. Lot's to eat. - Kurt Vonnegut
Don't play dumb. You're not as good at it as I am.
The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
You can be freak of the week, critical thinker & a domestic goddess all in one. There is a beauty in your layers, never dumb yourself down. - Ella December
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