Dumb Quotes

“I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?"
"Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything."
"Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb."
"Was it hard?" Annabeth asked.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
― Bill Watterson

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
― George W. Bush

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
― George W. Bush

“The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me’.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“They misunderestimated me.”
― George W. Bush

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
― George W. Bush

“Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!”
― Drew Barrymore

“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. ”
― George W. Bush

“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.”
― George W. Bush

“I think war is a dangerous place.”
― George W. Bush

“What's Walmart, do they sell like wall stuff?”
― Paris Hilton

“I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.”
― George W. Bush

“It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!”
― George W. Bush

“In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are copiously dispatched over the heads of the grassroots people that cannot see the writing on the wall and have to remain in the cold, like dumb puppets on a string. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.”
― George W. Bush

“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
― Brooke Shields

“I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.”
― George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

“I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph.”
― Kanye West

“I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.”
― George W. Bush

“It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.”
― George W. Bush

“Invalidating someone else is not merely disagreeing with something that the other person said. It is a process in which individuals communicate to another that the opinions and emotions of the target are invalid, irrational, selfish, uncaring, stupid, most likely insane, and wrong, wrong, wrong. Invalidators let it be known directly or indirectly that their targets views and feelings do not count for anything to anybody at any time or in any way.”
― David M. Allen

“I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)”
― George W. Bush

“Reading is the basics for all learning.”
― George W. Bush

“I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.”
― George H.W. Bush

“Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.”
― Jessica Simpson

“The important question is, How many hands have I shaked? ”
― George W. Bush

“Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?”
― Jessica Simpson

“War is not nice.”
― Barbara Bush

“If he can't get to the clock, any idea how we deal with this lot?"
"With great care," Donegan suggested.
"How about we run off shout and they follow?" Said Gracious. "Then, just when they think they've caught us they fall into our trap."
"OK," said Tanith. "And that trap would be?"
"A big hole we'd dug earlier and covered with branches.'
Tanith frowned. "I thought you were meant to be smart."
Gracious frowned back at her. "Who told you that?"
"Gracious is book smart," said Donegan. "He leaves the real world thinking to people like you and me and small dogs that he meets."
"The innocent are often the wisest.”
― Derek Landy, Last Stand of Dead Men