A Quote by Tanya Huff

What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?

Tanya Huff

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Idiot Village

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Tanya Huff
Canadian - Author
Born: 1957

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Thomas Sowell

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Gore Vidal

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

Charles Bukowski

Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.

Thomas Sowell

A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.

Linda Howard

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Jim Butcher

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Stanley Kubrick

Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

Russell Lynes

I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

Ada Yonath

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

Kent Haruf

Who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets fooled by the idiot?

Woody Allen

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Joan Van Ark

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

Melina Marchetta

I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.

Rick Riordan

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.