Dimwits Quotes

• I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.

  →

  George Meyer

  Religious   Wonderful Friends   People  

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

  4170

• There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

  →

  Charles Finch

  Paris   Important   Youth  

  Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.167, Macmillan

  2762

• In like a dimwit, out like a light.

  →

  Walt Kelly

  Light   Dimwits  

  5074

• Why couldn't she have gotten another Edger or some dimwit from the Broken for a passenger? No, she got Lord Leather Pants here.

  →

  Ilona Andrews

  Leather Pants   Broken   Lord  

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.47, NYLA

  277

• Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.

  →

  Shannon Hale

  Clever   Years   Thrones  

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.353, A&C Black

  3323

• A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

  →

  Stephen King

  Mean   Thinking   Dimwits  

  Stephen King (2016). “The Mouse on the Mile”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

  407

• There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

  →

  Ray Bradbury

  Running   Buddhist   Book  

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

  1411

• It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

  →

  Don DeLillo

  Epic   Cities   People  

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

  2905