Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?

Charlton Heston

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

Bobby Cannavale

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

Bob Woodward

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

Bob Newhart

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

Bo Burnham

Nothing's true that I say, because I don't really want to say anything. I don't think my life's that cool, and I don't think my opinion's that valid. They're just silly jokes. Usually I just take a topic that isn't funny at all, like Shakespeare, and work backwards. I just try to find an unfunny subject.

Jane Asher

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

Jane Austen

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

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Jane Austen

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane Austen

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Jane Austen

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Blaise Pascal

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Brian Greene

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

Brandon Marshall

I call him Alshon. He calls me Demaryius Thomas.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense. Rutabaga.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

Arthur Conan Doyle

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

Bruce Sterling

Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

Bruce Springsteen

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

Bruce Springsteen

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

Kenneth Branagh

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

Charles Bukowski

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

Charles Bukowski

I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.

Benjamin Franklin

I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.

Barbra Streisand

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

Arthur Conan Doyle

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

Bam Margera

I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

Demi Lovato

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

Daniel Handler

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

Bob Dylan

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.

Billy Collins

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.