Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

Aldous Huxley

It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been.

Aldous Huxley

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

Aaron Rodgers

I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.

A. A. Milne

Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

A. A. Milne

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

A. A. Milne

The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

Agatha Christie

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

Adam McKay

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

Adam Gopnik

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

Columbus Short

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

Dar Williams

God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'

Cornelia Funke

It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.

Colum McCann

Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.

Richard M. Nixon

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

David Wilkerson

I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.

Colin Hanks

Each one is different. Each project is different. Some are silly, some are not. Some are more realistic, some are not. Some are overly dramatic, some are not. You've just got to try and find the thing that's most engaging and entertaining in whatever way, shape or form, and it's different every time.

Cleo Moore

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

Dan Quayle

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Dan Quayle

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Dan Quayle

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

Dan Futterman

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

Dan Fogler

When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

Bjork

People ask me questions like, "Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you're like when you walk down the street?" It's like, "Of course not." It's such a silly question - it's like being theatrical is a crime.

Alice Cooper

While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

Annie Dillard

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Claire Danes

There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

Drew Barrymore

I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."

Doug Davidson

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

Doug Davidson

One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.

Donna Air

I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

Donald Sutherland

I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

Donna Reed

Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.