A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
~By Rudolf Nureyev ~
Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
~By Marlee Matlin ~
I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.
~By Muddy Waters ~
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
~By George Colman ~
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
~By Patricia Neal ~
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
~By Umberto Eco ~
I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.
~By John Entwistle ~
We made this really dumb decision to put on the cover nothing from South Park but just a real life photo of a piece of pooh dressed up like Mr. Hankey, and a lot of people didn't, they didn't even know what it was.
~By Trey Parker ~
I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.
~By Mia Kirshner ~
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
~By Mark Twain ~
You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.
~By John Irving ~
She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'
~By Amy Tan ~
Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.
~By Warren Cuccurullo ~
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
~By Frank Butler ~
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.
~By Arnold Rothstein ~
I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.
~By Beth Daniel ~
Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
~By Ann Coulter ~
I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
~By Sophia Loren ~
I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.
~By Francis Lee ~
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.
~By Maya Lin ~
Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
~By Joseph Gordon-Levitt ~
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
~By Orson Welles ~
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.
~By Brian Lamb ~
Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
~By David Allan Coe ~
The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.
~By Charlie Bell ~
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
~By Leon Spinks ~
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.
~By Brian Setzer ~
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
~By Ferdinand Christian Baur ~
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.
~By Eugene McCarthy ~
So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.
~By David Krumholtz ~
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
~By Eminem ~
I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
~By Lynda Barry ~
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
~By Dan Simmons ~
I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
~By Paris Hilton ~
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
~By Loretta Young ~
I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
~By Esai Morales ~
You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
~By Halle Berry ~
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
~By Erica Jong ~
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
~By Barbara Bush ~
There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
~By Tim Robbins ~
Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.
~By Goldie Hawn ~
I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits.
~By Henry Cole ~
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
~By Shawn Colvin ~
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
~By Harry Shearer ~
Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
~By Pat Brown ~
I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
~By Scott Adams ~
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.
~By Jim Courier ~
Too clever is dumb.
~By Ogden Nash ~
I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
~By Luc Ferrari ~
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Only dumb people are happy.
~By Courtney Love ~
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
~By Fran Drescher ~
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
~By Courtney Love ~
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
~By Jessica Simpson ~
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
~By Graham Greene ~
Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
~By Sally Kellerman ~
As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
~By Jim Carrey ~
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
~By Ted Turner ~
With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.
~By Curt Weldon ~
My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.
~By Joan Rivers ~
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
~By George Washington ~
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
~By Bobby Knight ~
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
~By Yul Brynner ~
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
~By George S. Patton ~
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
~By Andrew Greeley ~
I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.
~By David Zucker ~
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
~By Solomon Short ~
I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.
~By Jim Fowler ~
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
~By Mario Puzo ~
I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
~By Graham Greene ~
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.
~By Alia Shawkat ~
None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
~By Daniel Johns ~
Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
~By Andy Rooney ~
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
~By Dean Kamen ~
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
~By Dolly Parton ~
I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
~By Bruce McCulloch ~
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