Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thom Yorke

The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.

Terry Pratchett

But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

Terry Pratchett

Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!" "Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..." "Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!" "I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny. "No! My mum would take herself!" "What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said. "The fire!

Terry Gilliam

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

Terry Eagleton

It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

Marcus Aurelius

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Marcia Wallace

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

Peter Kreeft

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

Phil Donahue

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

Puff Daddy

I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

Jostein Gaarder

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

Kevin J. Anderson

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

Kevin Hart

My son is becoming me - just a silly, silly prankster guy.

Malin Akerman

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

Morley Callaghan

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

Mila Kunis

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

Joseph Addison

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

Kevin Smith

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

Kevin Spacey

The audience has spoken, they want stories. They're dying for them. They're rooting for us to give them the right thing and they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus, and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly gifs and god knows what else about it.

Kevin Bacon

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

John Bonham

I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.

Lana Wood

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

Lisa Kleypas

Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.

John Ralston Saul

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

James Joyce

I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

James Joyce

Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

Simon Bird

I don't think American family sitcoms are mean. I guess I really love 'Arrested Development.' I guess they are quite mean in that, but that is also a very silly, surreal, absurd show as well, and it has got a heart as well.

Sid Vicious

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

Tara Strong

Don't be afraid to look silly.

Marjane Satrapi

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

Maury Wills

Okay, everyone, now inhale... and then dehale!

Max Irons

For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.