Silly Quotes · Page 32

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

— Duff Cooper

I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.

— Bill Austin

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

— Emily Bronte

When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock…

— Torii Hunter

“I am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly… And that goes for the opposition as…

— Calvin Trillin

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to…

— Wayne Pacelle

Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie…

— Matt Smith

[Mrs. Teasdale]: He's had a change of heart. [Groucho]: A lot of good that'll do him. He's still got the same face.

— Groucho Marx

I think being appropriate is what you have to do. I think these trend things are terrible, like 'Ten Things You Must…

— Iris Apfel

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly…

— Lisa Kleypas

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to…

— James Dyson

For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast.…

— Peter S. Beagle

But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about…

— Lawrence Lessig

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are…

— Lord Chesterfield

I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But…

— John Bonham

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

— Richard Donner

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view…

— Michelle Obama

Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize…

— Christopher Paolini

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you…

— Elon Musk

“It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like…

— Gillian Flynn

It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

— James Bay

When life knocks me down, instead of getting back up I usually just lie there and take a nap.

— Anonymous

We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.

— John McCain

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and…

— Malachy McCourt

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is…

— Will Cuppy

“The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.”

— Pat Conroy

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say:…

— Catherynne M. Valente

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like…

— Illeana Douglas

I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.

— Jonathan Levine

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie…

— Bono

I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

— Bam Margera

We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on…

— John McCain

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.

— Jimmy Fallon

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

— Agatha Christie

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

— Tricia Helfer

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

— Joni Mitchell

You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion…But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in…

— Sofia Coppola

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

— Tom Conti

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do…

— Joe Wurzelbacher