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.

Kirk Hammett

The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'

Peter O'Toole

A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.

Mike Anderson

Don't overestimate your power. This is not a rubber stamp deal.

Florentijn Hofman

I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

Bill Engvall

A condom is a rubber thing shaped like a wiener that hums.

Michael Palin

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

Henry David Thoreau

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

Fred Brown

If I had a rubber band, I would have yanked it back.

Tom Cole

The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

Eleanor Tomlinson

I can't walk five steps without someone on a walkie talkie going, 'She's wandering over there.' I'm pretty stuck, but hey, it's been great.

Carl Hiaasen

Hey. Sometimes to conclusions.

Charlaine Harris

There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.

Al Gore

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

Brian Regan

Hey, you know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop dusting.

Brooke Burke

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

Eli Manning

Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.

Bruce Springsteen

You aint a beauty but hey you're all right

Mark Sandstrom

I thought Williams might have a heyday if we played some man (defense), just because of his athleticism and I've got a lot of respect for the kid.