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.

Paul Lewis

If we put all the coins in a line on the pavement, it would stretch over 1km down the road.

Angel Cabrera

I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.

Sammy Cahn

Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

Banksy

Keep your coins, I want change.

William Shakespeare

Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.

Brigitte Bardot

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

Alexander Pope

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.

Kenneth Cox

some of the coins are so rare that I hate to see them go.

Charles Krauthammer

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

Will Durant

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

Jason Chaffetz

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

Benjamin Graham

Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.

Brian Sandoval

Fiscally I’m very conservative … others say that I’m socially moderate,

Benjamin Disraeli

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Allan Lichtman

Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.

Ann Coulter

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.