Quotes of Inane - somelinesforyou

“ Let me say with total sincerity that I never said that, and it has been misquoted,... These are not my words, and I would go to the extent of saying I am not so silly and stupid to make comments of this sort. ”

- Pervez Musharraf

“ Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ Nothing seems to me so inane as bookish language in conversation. ”

- Marie Henri Beyle Stendhal

“ The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“ You're never too old to become younger. ”

- Mae West

“ You have to be quite stupid to act. ”

- Rachel Weisz

“ Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. ”

- Ben Elton

“ If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ”

- Epictetus

“ But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. ”

- Antonin Artaud

“ Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press. ”

- Thomas Griffith
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