Famous Quotes & Sayings

Red Buttons

The Invisible Man, who said to his wife, I don't care if it looks silly, don't stop! Never got a dinner!

Tom Stoppard

It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.

Russell Pearce

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Norman Finkelstein

There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.

Matthew Caws

Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous.

Nick Harkaway

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Maeve Binchy

It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

Michel de Montaigne

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

Michael Schudson

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

Jim Gaffigan

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

Jackie Kennedy

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.

Hillary Clinton

Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

Evgeny Morozov

I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.

Ernest Hemingway

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

Ernest Hemingway

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Etty Hillesum

When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

Eugene Mirman

There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.

G. H. Hardy

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.

G. H. Hardy

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

George W. Bush

Put the 'off' button on.

George W. Bush

I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.

George W. Bush

I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

George W. Bush

It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

George W. Bush

I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

George W. Bush

Do you have blacks, too?

George W. Bush

I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.

George W. Bush

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

George W. Bush

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

George W. Bush

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

George W. Bush

I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right.