Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love?… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Punks in their silly leather jackets are a cliché. I have never liked the term and have never discussed it. I just… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand,… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
I'm not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly. But I think it's really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a… — Tori Spelling Copy Share Image
A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
All the utopianism of the early days of the Internet seems to have dissipated. But I don't want us to lose that… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My dad has a very dry sense of humor and my mom has a more fun, silly sense of humor. My mom… — Katie Dippold Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful.… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
What would I like? Some very silly comedy where I don't have to think about anything, but it could be a lot… — James Callis Copy Share Image
