We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.
It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.
The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride. . . I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.
It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks
The Nazis were seldom dumb and never funny.
The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.
There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
I'm kind of like a dumb model.
Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.
I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.
And hey, it's okay to laugh at yourself sometimes, I do dumb things all the time (haha). But when it get's too personal, get your tough skin on and stand firm.
Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
Did you write the words, or the lyrics?
A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.
Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there.
Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on. " They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.
Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself