Quotes and Sayings About Silly
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
-- A. A. Milne -
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!
-- A. P. Herbert -
We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.
-- Aaron Belz -
I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
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I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
-- Abraham PaisSource : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
-- Adam McKay -
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
-- Aesop -
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
-- Al McGuire -
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It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
-- Alain de Botton -
I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.
-- Alan Price -
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
-- Aldous Huxley -
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.
-- Aleksandar HemonSource : Oriana Fallaci (2002). “The Rage and the Pride”, Rizzoli International Publications
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
-- Alexander Pope -
It is always the silly things that remind me
-- Alexandra Potter -
I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.
-- Alexandra PotterSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace...
-- Alexis Carrel -
Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
-- Alfred BesterSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.
-- Alice Cooper -
We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.
-- Alice McDermottSource : Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black
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When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?
-- Allen Iverson -
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Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?' 'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.
-- Ally Carter -
It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.
-- Amber DermontSource : Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan
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This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.
-- Amy Lowell -
There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
-- Amy Poehler -
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You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be.
-- Amy Ray -
My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.
-- Amy Sedaris