The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“...a life in which conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that conduct can only be… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about shooting guns instantly on film is to not pull a silly face while the gun is going… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no… — Peter Farrelly Copy Share Image
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Go a little easier on yourself, and in so doing, be prepared to make and do things that might seem silly at… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly… — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
I don't have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don't worry about all… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Fashion is silly. Perhaps I should say fashion in general is silly. But then everything is, in general. If you talk about… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity -… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
People who are creative, who do it as a lifestyle, it's kind of silly to make that claim you're done, because you… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's… — Marcia Wallace Copy Share Image
These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
His gaze was a lot steadier than her heartbeat. “She’s the reason for those whispered phone calls I used to overhear, isn’t… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
I think that the whole idea of ‘no regrets’ was always a silly idea to me, because of course I regret all… — Jesse Lacey Copy Share Image
We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I first was on Big Time Rush, the TV show, I did a lot of silly things. Among the first episodes… — James Maslow Copy Share Image
When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think… — Valentino Rossi Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image