Best 625 quotes in «dumb quotes» category

The best worst example of making people feel unappreciated today lies in the casualness, indeed indifference with regard to massive lay-offs even when there isn't a financial crisis. That is a message to employees that they are expendable, interchangeable, easily dismissed and replaced, often by younger, less experienced and cheaper employees. The essential message being conveyed to people is, You are worthless. What an incredibly dumb thing that is for management to say!

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.

The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

The difference between a broadcaster and a host is that a host tells stories and dumb jokes, but a broadcaster can articulate deeper like, you know - things and stuff.

The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid.  Awareness atrophies.  Dumb gets dumber.  Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other.  We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experiences.  These lists are meaningless.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

The Nazis were seldom dumb and never funny.

Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

There are no dumb questions?only dumb answers.

The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required.

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.

The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as that of various heathen nations who were anciently in the habit of packing them upon the backs of various dumb animals.

There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people.

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

There's an elitism that comes out with the entertainment industry. I'll talk about some shows, but I'm not gonna say that you're dumb for watching one over the other. I just let it go. I don't have to declare a fatwa on any of these things. I've gotten over some of my elitism.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.