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.

Robert Kazinsky

I was such a fan of 'True Blood;' I knew the essence of it.

Talulah Riley

'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

Charles Peguy

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Dennis Prager

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Ed Parker

Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

Elizabeth Bowen

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

Deepak Chopra

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

Winston Varnado

Liberty just would never give up. They were never out of the game.

Nevada Democrat

Mr. President, liberty and security are not contradictory.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Dennis Prager

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Abraham Lincoln

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Abraham Lincoln

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Ludwig von Mises

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.