Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ally Carter

Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers. 'No.' 'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?' 'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.

Allen Iverson

If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

Allen Ginsberg

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

Allen Ginsberg

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

Anthony Jeselnik

I do dark [humor]. I like people who are silly and weird and people who are surprising and good at what they do.

Ann Coulter

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

Ann Coulter

We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.

Ann Coulter

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

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.

Aleister Crowley

The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

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.

Jane Asher

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

Jane Austen

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Jane Austen

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Jane Austen

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane Austen

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Jane Austen

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Ben Elton

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

Carey Mulligan

It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.

C. S. Lewis

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

C. S. Lewis

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly.

Barry Gibb

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

Antonin Scalia

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

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.