Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howell Raines

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

Horace

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Hank Azaria

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

Gore Vidal

Christianity is such a silly religion.

Harold Pinter

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

James Frey

I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.

Morley Callaghan

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

Mila Kunis

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

Epictetus

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Emily Bronte

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me many of his poems. I remember many of them. They were silly, you could say, and about love. He was always in his room writing those things, and never with people. I used to tell him, What good is all that love doing on paper? I said, Let love write on you for a little. But he was so stubborn. Or perhaps he was only timid.

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

O. Henry

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

Joseph Addison

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

Kevin Smith

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

Kevin Spacey

The audience has spoken, they want stories. They're dying for them. They're rooting for us to give them the right thing and they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus, and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly gifs and god knows what else about it.

Kevin Bacon

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

Kelley Armstrong

It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn't afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first - I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he'd think of me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

Malin Akerman

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

George Carlin

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!

Gail Sheehy

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

Frank Warren

Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet.

Tom Conti

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

James Harvey Robinson

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Laurence Sterne

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

Laurence Sterne

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

Lamar S. Smith

The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.

Rajneesh

So remember, my meaning of discipline is not that of any Ten Commandments...Your discipline has to come from your very heart, it has to be your own-and there is a great difference. When somebody else gives you the discipline, it can never fit you; it will be like wearing somebody else's clothes. Either they will be too loose or too tight, and you will always feel a little bit silly in them.

Michael Steele

We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

Michael Shannon

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.