Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost… — Barbara Windsor Copy Share Image
I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?'… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
The Church in the United States turned a corner about three decades ago, and the idea that we're going back to the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess… — Katharine McPhee Copy Share Image
Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
“Which is all rather silly, because any woman setting out to make a living by the sword isn’t about to go around… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A lot of people have done things over the years and made fun of people in one way or another. When I… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake! Gideon… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
I try to keeps things pretty light, try to make people laugh. I find it difficult to keep trying to promote myself.… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly… — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
Campaigns and elections are not a game. They're not a game. They're about trying to change America. We're the wealthiest country in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm always dying to do more comedic parts, I love it when I get to do something really overblown like Crazy, Stupid,… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and being ridiculed. There's just not a whole lot… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature,… — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
I like silly things. I think that "silly-stupid" or "stupid-smart" might be my philosophy, which is to combine a veneer of intelligence… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
I wear non-gender-specific clothes. I just look silly in girls' clothes. I'm quite tall, and they're never the right cut for me… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
'Seanan McGuire' is my real name; if I'm being silly and third-person about it, she's a frequently cranky, foul-mouthed Disney Princess on… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
