Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Donne

My love though silly is more brave.

John Belushi

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

Gary Cooper

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

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.

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.

Lukas Foss

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

Gail Collins

Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term.

Gail Carriger

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

Freya Stark

The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

Frank Lampard

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

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.

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.

Helen Mirren

The most difficult thing about shooting guns instantly on film is to not pull a silly face while the gun is going off, because it's always a bit of a shock. So you find yourself sticking your tongue out or blinking or whatever. So the hardest thing is to keep a straight face while you're shooting a gun.

Heinrich Heine

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Henry Fielding

What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.

John McCain

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

John Irving

I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.

Edgar Allan Poe

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

Edsger Dijkstra

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

Hayao Miyazaki

You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

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.

Ernest Hemingway

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