It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

Katherine Parkinson has got a classics degree from Cambridge yet is an idiot - in the best possible way.

Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything.

If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot.

Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

You can't control how you come across and if you try to then you come across looking like an idiot anyway.

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

I think we need more idiot control.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

'American Idiot' is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it's become an anthem of a generation.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

I'm an idiot.

If some idiot with lip gloss is telling me how awesome Lindsay Lohan is, I'm like, 'No, Lindsay is not awesome.'

'American Idiot' was the hardest show that I've ever done - ever.

It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.