Silly Things Quotes:

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

- Larry Wall

source: Usenet article "Why split() drops trailing null fields?", groups.google.com. July 3, 1992.

topic: Silly, Purpose, Silly Things

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

source: "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Education, Dream, Being Silly, Silly People

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

source: "The New York World-Telegram and Sun" Newspaper, 1961.

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, Appreciation, My Mistakes, Energy And Enthusiasm

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

- Lewis Buzbee

source: Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.302, Macmillan

topic: Silly, Maturity, Craving, Silly Things

Dreams are just silly things that pass through your mind at night. "Dreaming" is out-of-the-body experiences where you are traveling through the different dimensions - most of which you don't remember.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Dream, Silly, Night, Different Dimensions, Silly Things

In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Spiritual, Silly, Oneness, Silly Things

It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

- Amber Dermont

source: Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

topic: Silly, People, Obsession, Silly Things

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

- Janet Jackson

topic: Children, Growing Up, Silly, Silly Things

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

- Michael Madsen

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Real, Silly, Character, True Story, Silly Things

I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I'm always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety.

- Sutton Foster

topic: Silly, Writing, People, Silly Things

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

- Keisha Castle-Hughes

topic: Growing Up, Silly, Able, Silly Things

NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

- O. J. Simpson

topic: Football, Silly, Player, Silly Things

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Fashion, Laughter, Silly, Loud Laughter, Creation Of The World

From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work, odd as that may appear to others at times. As Piglet put it in Winnie-the-Pooh, "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right."

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Block, Silly, Simple, Pooh And Piglet, Pooh Piglet

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

- Diane Cilento

topic: Father, Silly, Successful, Silly Things

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

- Mona Sahlin

source: "Multiculturalists Working to Undermine Western Civilization" by Philip Carl Salzman, www.gatestoneinstitute.org. December 16, 2017.

topic: Silly, Jealous, Thinking, Silly Things

I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.

- Michael Laudrup

source: "Michael Laudrup hits out over 'silly' sacking by Swansea City". www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2014.

topic: Football, Silly, League, Premier League, Silly Things

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

- Duff Cooper

source: Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.57, Faber & Faber

topic: Silly, Wine, Foolish, Wine Making, Silly Things

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

- A. P. Herbert

source: 1931 'Too Much!'.

topic: Business, Government, Giving, Giving Money, Silly Things

Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.

- Erika Slezak

topic: Running, Silly, People, Coma, Amnesia

Baywatch was a turning point for me. Reluctantly famous (in over 150 countries) I tried to make sense of my place on earth. I started to realize -- while being interviewed endlessly about silly things. That I had a Voice!!!

- Pamela Anderson

topic: Country, Silly, Voice, Baywatch, Silly Things

Everybody would like to be good, that's the silly thing, everybody always likes it when they're having a nice time or when they're happy or when it's sunny, they all dig it; but then they go and forget about it, they never really try to make it nice. They think that it just comes along and it's nice if you're lucky, or if you're unlucky it's bad for you.

- George Harrison

source: Source: www.fifthestate.org

topic: Nice, Silly, Thinking, Nice Time, Silly Things

I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Running, Silly, Thinking, Silly Things

The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in France, which was all about motorists and seeing if it was worth driving an extra 50 miles for a restaurant. It's a silly thing. Why do you want to help a tire company? You don't owe them nothing.

- Anthony Bourdain

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Silly, World, Want, Silly Things

'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.

- Mark Hoppus

source: "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's new album 'California'". Coup De Main interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

topic: Song, Silly, Guitar, Silly Things

What's most troubling is the open water swim. It's windy, the waves are getting in your face and the water is a bit dirty. And there's silly things like you can't touch the bottom if you swallow a mouthful of water.

- Greg James

source: "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, in.askmen.com.

topic: Dirty, Silly, Water, Silly Things

Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have to pay to publish this myself, and I think a lot about about putting out fifty copies. I used to think about hogwash like my legacy and silly things like that. But I feel like if I never have another book out, I've done okay, I've had like twelve or thirteen little books, and I won't be upset about this on my death bed.

- Richard Meltzer

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Silly, Book, Thinking, Hogwash, Death Bed

You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have a really hot dress and a nice pair of shoes and just go out there and look fabulous and try to sing my best.

- Katharine McPhee

topic: Nice, Silly, Shoes, Silly Things

They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you

- Stephen Colbert

topic: Running, Silly, Fall, Silly Things

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

- Kristen Stewart

topic: Silly, Vanity, Sound, Silly Things

It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of it, making a film - it's pretend. It's a silly thing to do. But it can be important, and to have that experience with people you love is one of the best things you can do.

- Christopher Abbott

topic: Beautiful, Silly, Heart, Silly Things

Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Silly, Love Is, Lovers, Love Is Blind, Silly Things

We're blessed to be worrying about the silly things that we worry about when people are worrying about where they are going to sleep, and what they are going to feed their kids every day.

- Jennifer Connelly

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Silly, Blessed, Sleep, Going To Sleep, Silly Things

Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling. You just want to get out of that situation.

- Dianna Agron

source: "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

topic: Silly, Two, Feet, Silly Things

In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.

- Virginia Madsen

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Silly, Voice, Cameras, Silly Things

I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"

- Aziz Ansari

source: "Aziz Ansari and Dilshad Vadsaria On Set Interview 30 Minutes or Less". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 10, 2011.

topic: Silly, Thinking, People, Improvising, Hula

Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.

- Duff Cooper

topic: Wise, Wine, Firm, Debit, Counsellors

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Distance, Silly, Men, Silly Things

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them. This dystopian trend picks up on that little part of your life where everything feels really extreme and it honors that part of your life and says, "Yeah. It is the end of the world. Look at it."

- Veronica Roth

topic: Teenager, Silly, Thinking, Dystopian, Silly Things

When I first was on Big Time Rush, the TV show, I did a lot of silly things. Among the first episodes that came out, my buddies wanted to have a viewing party, so we turned it into a drinking game. Every time I did something dumb, we took a shot. We were hammered!

- James Maslow

topic: Party, Drinking, Silly, Hammered, Silly Things

I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.

- Ashlee Simpson

topic: Zoos, Fun, Silly, Silly Things

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

- A. A. Milne

source: A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

topic: Clever, Silly, Book, Silly Things

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Silly, Territory, Primitive, Silly Things

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Meaningful, Silly, Healthy, Silly Things

Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Silly, World, Silly Things

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Silly, Men, Belief, Silly Things

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

- Jane Austen

source: 1816 Emma, ch.26.

topic: Silly, People, Done, Being Silly, Silly Things

One does silly things when one is twelve.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.704, Simon and Schuster

topic: Silly, Twelve, Doe, Silly Things

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

- Ozzy Osbourne

source: Launch.com interview, October 30, 1998.

topic: Stupid, Silly, Young, You Re Stupid, Silly Things

If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.

- Tom Peters

topic: Silly, Intelligent, Done, Silly Things