A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky

A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks.
Jason Zebehazy

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
Kevin Bacon

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Friedrich Nietzsche

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.
Sherilyn Fenn

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
Tim Robbins

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.
Blake Edwards

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.
Jimmy Fallon

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.
Jeff Ament

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
David Hilbert

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Peter Lynch

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
Johann Most

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike