Surrounding Yourself With Dumb People Quotes & Sayings

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read. — Frederick Douglass

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be. — Marty Rubin

To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics ... To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark ... To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share. — Jan Phillips

Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us. — Barbara Jordan

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish. — Douglas Hofstadter

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. — Julianne Moore

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence. — Marianne Williamson

I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates. — Sy Montgomery

I assume that if God is anything like Jesus, then living in fear is a waste of time. — Tripp Fuller

We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation. — Fred Thompson