Silly Quotes · Page 26

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

— Basil Bunting

The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog' uses every letter in the alphabet.

— Anonymous

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

— Voltaire

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at…

— Tom Rachman

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

— Bill Ackman

Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little…

— Becky G

There's going to be a Halloween costume [of lavash from Sausage Party]. The whole thing is just so ridiculous. It's nice. It's…

— David Krumholtz

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

— Gloria Steinem

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the…

— Zach Braff

There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American…

— Robert Pinsky

We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't…

— Philip Wollen

The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers…

— Wendell Berry

He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't know what 'my way' is. Everybody keeps telling me I got all these things. I read the other day where…

— Charles Manson

When I get hired as an actor as opposed to a writer, one of things that's exciting for me is doing stuff…

— Stephen Merchant

He [Donald Trump]wants to build the wall. It would be silly to say we're going to - we're going to create an…

— John Yarmuth

What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a…

— John Lydon

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may…

— Ronald Coase

All of our heroes did silly stuff early and got more serious as time went on. Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, Bill Murray.…

— Akiva Schaffer

When you're young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you're 40 in…

— Gin Wigmore

Cheating on someone who loves you is like sneaking a Happy Meal into Olive Garden. It's like, dude you already have unlimited…

— Anonymous

Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.

— Tom Petty

You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.

— Stephenie Meyer

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.

— Max Anders

If someone tells you what something is supposed to look like or to follow a specific trend, but it looks silly on…

— Aquaria

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

— Michael Morpurgo

“Edwin’s creations landed hit or miss on the board and one miss a year ago ended with us heaving overboard for a…

— Katherine McIntyre

I do not chase silly drama for the sake of storylines, though it sometimes seems to find me.

— Carole Radziwill

Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you…

— John Prescott

I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway…

— Kate Beaton

I really enjoyed stepping into that side of [princess Margaret] and being silly and naughty and fun.

— Vanessa Kirby

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't…

— Spencer Silver

I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht.

— Justin Kirk

“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't think people are too interested in my naked selfie in my bathroom while I'm shaving my legs. It wouldn't even…

— Nicole Ari Parker

There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat.…

— Jamie Farr

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

— George W. Bush

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

— Maurice Sendak

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

— George Eliot