Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cobbett

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

Stephenie Meyer

Everything in my world was about him. What a silly thing to expect.

Tim Vine

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke

Tim Vine

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

Victor Garber

If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

Gordon Bethune

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Geri Halliwell

Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart

Harriet Walter

I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

Herbert Spencer

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Jerry Falwell

He is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.

Jim Gaffigan

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

Jackie Kennedy

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

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.

Hillary Clinton

Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

Evgeny Morozov

I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.

Ernest Hemingway

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

Ernest Hemingway

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Etty Hillesum

When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

Graham Hawkes

Earth is a silly name for this planet.

Graham Chapman

Camelot is a silly place.

Harper Lee

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

Gregory Peck

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

Iggy Azalea

A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

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.

George Bernard Shaw

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

George Bernard Shaw

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

Gary Larson

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

Eric Burdon

Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.