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Stupid Question Quotes

Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions.
- Douglas Adams

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.
- Ronald Reagan

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
- Scott Adams

Sarcasm is one of the many services I offer to people who ask stupid questions!
- Habeeb Akande

Simon?" she asked. "I have a stupid question."
"What is it?"
"Did you sleep with Isabelle?"
Simon made a choking sound. Clary swiveled slowly around to look at him.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"I think so," he said, recovering his poise with apparent effort. "Are you serious?"
"Well, you were gone all night.
- Cassandra Clare

Where are your sons?" asked the prince.
"Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman.
- Hans Christian Anderson

If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
- Billie Joe Armstrong

What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you."
"Why?"
"Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?
- Rick Riordan

If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
- Marilyn Monroe

She could just hear her little brother asking all sorts of stupid questions, like if his underwear was black too.
- Kelly Creagh

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.
- Cory Doctorow

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.
- Gina Gershon

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.
- Chris Isaak

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
- Bill Joy

It has been said," Jackson continued, beginning to pace slowly around the room, "that there is no such thing as a stupid question. No doubt you yourselves have been told this. Questions, it is supposed, are the sign of an inquisitive mind." He stopped, surveying them critical y. "On the contrary, questions are merely the sign of a student who has not been paying attention.
- G Norman Lippert

It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

- J D Salinger

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
- J D Salinger

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.
- Harry Stack Sullivan

That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.'
'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.
- Rick Yancey

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