Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Kathryn Lasky

What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions.

James Dyson

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

Jaron Lanier

Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.

Jane Pauley

Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

It would be silly to say that everything is unchanged in the government. It is not so.

Hayao Miyazaki

You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

Gordon Bethune

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Geri Halliwell

Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart

Harriet Walter

I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

Herbert Spencer

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

James Frey

I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.

Horace Walpole

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

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.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

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.

George Eliot

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Christoph Waltz

A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.

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.