A Quote by Russell Lynes

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

Russell Lynes

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Idiot Just Missing Village Your

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Russell Lynes
American - Critic
December 2, 1910 - September 14, 1991

A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.

Linda Howard

A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.

Jasper Fforde

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

Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.

Alain de Botton

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

Steve Marriott

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Melina Marchetta

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

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

Tanya Huff

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

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

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

Studs Terkel

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

Aaron Broussard

Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers and fathers. Children are missing your support. United for Children. Unite against AIDS.