Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

Edsger Dijkstra

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

Basil Bunting

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

David Neeleman

I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.

Dick Van Dyke

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Diane Neal

Ive been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

Booth Tarkington

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

Boris Becker

Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Bob Colacello

Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.

David Nicholls

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

Abraham Lincoln

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

Bill Smith

It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.

Cleo Moore

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

Dan Quayle

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Dan Quayle

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Dan Quayle

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

Dan Futterman

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

Dan Fogler

When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

Columbus Short

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

Dar Williams

God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'

Cornelia Funke

It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.

Colum McCann

Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.

David Coleman

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

David Bailey

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

David Attenborough

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

Dane Cook

I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had said all this vulgar stuff. They would be like, 'Oh you're a silly boy - we know you're just playing.

This week is kind of a silly week,

Richard M. Nixon

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Bernie Sanders

A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well guess what? Change has come.

Ernest Cline

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

Cassandra Clare

I adore Wilkie Collins,” Tessa cried. “Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White … Are you laughing at me?” “Not at you,” said Will, grinning, “more because of you. I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.” “Well, they are, aren’t they? Isn’t there anything you love like that? And don’t say ‘spats’ or ‘lawn tennis’ or something silly.” “Good Lord,” he said with mock horror, “it’s like she knows me already.

Carmen Electra

I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.

Carmen Electra

My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to.