„There’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity, which should never be crossed.“
— Lewis Pugh Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer 1969
„The chequered flag is really just a stupid wooden stick and a piece of cloth. It's a small thing, but it means so much when you cross the line at moments like that. It was unbelievable.“
— Sebastian Vettel, http://www.sebastian-vettel.org/quotes.htm
After his 4th position in China 2007.
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„It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.“
— Jerome David Salinger American writer 1919 - 2010
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„Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.“
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
„To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.“
— Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951
„We are rightfully outraged when anyone attacks or desecrates our flag. Few Americans do such things and when they do they are subject to the rightful condemnation of their fellow citizens. They may be destroying a piece of cloth, but they do no damage to our system of freedom which tolerates such desecration.“
— Colin Powell Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937
„I didn't mean you were stupid. It's just that you're not logical, which isn't the same thing at all.“
— Eugéne Ionesco Romanian playwright 1909 - 1994
Amédée from Amédée or How to Get Rid of It (1954)
„People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. So you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party... As you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put down. That's the Spirit of the Stairway. The trouble is, even the French don't have a phrase for the stupid things you actually do say under pressure. Those stupid, desperate things you actually think or do.“
— Chuck Palahniuk American novelist, essayist 1962
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„I just want to say that um, I'm just really, really shocked at like how nice our world is because it's just so nice. Like oh my God! Like, the other day, like I was sitting there and I saw these magazines and they said I was pregnant, and like, it's so true. Like America, believe everything you read. Because, like, you're smart and I'm stupid. Like for real. Come on y'all.“
— Britney Spears American singer, dancer and actress 1981
Sarcastic message delivered in "valley girl" tones, recorded by X17online, as quoted in "Britney, like, totally breaks her silence" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18141662/ns/entertainment-access_hollywood/ at Access Hollywood (17 April 2007).
„I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out. I have a pretty thick skin about people coming up to me and saying things to me when I'm out, I don't really mind that too much. but when people are just loud and annoying, it drives me crazy.“
— Joshua Jackson Canadian actor 1978
As quoted in the article 'End of an Era?' in Live and Kicking magazine (2000)
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„Writing about music is like dancing about architecture — it's a really stupid thing to want to do.“
— Elvis Costello English singer-songwriter 1954
This has commonly been paraphrased "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." More info at "Alan P. Scott : Talking about music..." http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm Also, Costello has denied http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/11/08/writing-about-music/ having coined this, in an interview in Q magazine, tentatively attributing the quote instead to Martin Mull.
