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Dumbness Quotes (page 11)

Kurt Vonnegut quote: "My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed...."
My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things. Kurt Vonnegut
Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So when they'd ask if I'd read all those books, I'd say, 'Hell, no. Who wants a library full of books you've already read? Harlan Ellison
Christian Nestell Bovee quote: "Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can..."
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. Christian Nestell Bovee
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so..."
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Penn Warren quote: " . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to..."
. . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . . Robert Penn Warren
In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb. Coco Chanel
This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me. Kurt Cobain
...if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter. George Washington
So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his chest his heart hammers so hard that it too, in its dumb way, must know. How will they stand up to the testing, he and his heart? J. M. Coetzee
When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself. Richard Bach
She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean. Margaret Atwood
George Eliot quote: "Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in..."
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. George Eliot
You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or instinct, or simply because he had been tuitored into it, or by any intermixture of all of these , even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb , sponteneous literal process. Herman Melville
It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western Civilization, if you cared to pay attention: music, finance, government, architecture, law and sculpture and painting, history and medicine and athletics and every sort of science, and books, books, books, and teachers and role models. People so smart you can’t believe it, and people so dumb you can’t believe it. People so nice you can’t believe it, and people so mean you can’t believe it. Kurt Vonnegut
He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own. Neil Gaiman

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