Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Van Dyke

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Diane Neal

Ive been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

Edgar Allan Poe

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

Edsger Dijkstra

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

Basil Bunting

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

David Neeleman

I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.

David Nicholls

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

Abraham Lincoln

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

Aaron Rodgers

I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.

Lynn Coady

One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.

Charles Spurgeon

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Denis Diderot

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Elbert Hubbard

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Elbert Hubbard

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Elbert Hubbard

Theology is Classified Superstition.

Elbert Hubbard

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Charles Spurgeon

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

Charles Simeon

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

Benjamin Franklin

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Bill Hybels

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

Brother Lawrence

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

Arthur Miller

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Benjamin Disraeli

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.