I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
If a messiah exhorts you to kill people of another belief system, get this idiot non-prophet out of your stupid system.
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.
No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.
I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.
Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.
People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'
I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.
Dola: [as she watches a fight between her sons and the townspeople] Leave it to my little idiots to start a riot...
Bob Rusk: [addressing Brenda, a marriage broker] If you can fix up a lot of idiots, why not me?
Jean: Everything you touch turns to shit, you're like king Midas's idiot brother.
Alfred: Please excuse my father. It makes him feel young and powerful to treat us like idiot children.
Grandpa: Olive, Richard is an idiot. I like a woman with meat on her bones.
Lieutenant Schrank: Do you mind? Doc: I have no mind. I am the village idiot.