Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Fincher

We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

David Foster Wallace

I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.

David Foster Wallace

If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right now and thus face all the impediments to sort of dealing with those parts of their lives that, you know, that we did. So it would be not only silly but unrealistic to have a character saying that kind of stuff.

David Coleman

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

David Bailey

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

David Attenborough

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

Donald Sutherland

I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

Donna Reed

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

Daniel Craig

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

Dan Jenkins

Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred to me to wear shorts. I'd look too silly to wear shorts.

Cynthia Heimel

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.

Andre Johnson

I think he's the best quarterback in this game

Andre Breton

A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.

Anne Frank

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

Chuck Palahniuk

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

Christopher Paolini

Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces

Amy Carmichael

The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap

Alicia Silverstone

When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

Alicia Keys

From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.

Alice Cooper

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

Aesop

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

A. A. Milne

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

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.

Doris Day

If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

Donald Rumsfeld

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

Diogenes

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

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.