Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

Eddie Izzard

The Pope is guarded by the Swiss guard who stand proudly in pajamas and silly hats.

Antony Sher

Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.

Dee Dee Ramone

I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

William Shakespeare

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

Carolyn Wells

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Aaron Tveit

It's interesting, a lot of my friends and family thought that was the moment I kind of showed everyone my humor; the silly side of me that friends and family know, so that could be what people were responding to. I have a big sense of humor, and people who know me know that silly side of me, so moving forward, I think it gives me the freedom and confidence to do more of that.

Charlotte Bronte

At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

Charlotte Bronte

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Chaim Potok

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

Diana Gabaldon

This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?

Barbra Streisand

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

Betty White

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Douglas Lee

It was a waste of money, and a waste of time.

Dexter Scott King

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Brad Lidge

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

Jane Yolen

If you love a waist, you waste a love.