#stupid

Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art. ↗

— Libba Bray

#cinnamon-buns #death #fries #i-m-with-stupid #ketchup

None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion. He was an old lion, prepared from birth to lose his life rather than to leave it. But he had the dignity of all free creatures, and so he was allowed his moment. It was hardly a glorious moment. The two men who shot him were indifferent as men go, or perhaps they were less than that. At least they shot him without killing him, and then turned the unsconscionable eye of a camera upon his agony. It was a small, a stupid, but a callous crime. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#hunting #lions #stupidity #tourists #life

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#cause #code #environment #ever #exist

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#came #directors #disappear #earth #economy

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#call #certainly #democrats #going #i

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#created #did #going #instead #job

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#disease #live #miracle #society #stupid

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#ancient #back #being #convention #due

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#believe #borrowers #conservatism #conservatives #destroyed

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hard #ignorant #must #remain #stupid