Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Cassandra Clare

That demon woman you were lounging with on the divan,” said Will. “Would you call her a friend, or more of a business associate?” Benedict’s dark eyes hardened. “Insolent puppy—” “Oh, I’d say she was a friend,” said Tessa. “One doesn’t usually let one’s business associates lick one’s face. Although I could be wrong. What do I know about these things? I’m only a silly woman.

Cassandra Clare

Well, it seems a bit silly, looking there,” said Will. “It’s not like Mortmain’s going to lodge a complaint against the Shadow-hunters through official channels. ‘Very upset Shadowhunters refused to all die when I wanted them to. Demand recompense. Please mail cheque to A. Mortmain, 18 Kensington Road—

Cassandra Clare

One does silly things when one is twelve.

Cassandra Clare

Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus." Will unpeeled himself from the door and made his way toward Tessa where she stood by the bookshelves. He gestured expansively at the vast number of volumes all around him. "No, here you'll find all sorts of advice about how to chop off someone else's head if you need to; much more useful.

George Eliot

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

Gore Vidal

Christianity is such a silly religion.

Harold Pinter

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

James Frey

I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.

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.

G. H. Hardy

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.

G. H. Hardy

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

Christoph Waltz

A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you're not straight anymore, you're bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you've collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.

George W. Bush

Put the 'off' button on.

George W. Bush

I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.

George W. Bush

I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

George W. Bush

It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

George W. Bush

I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

George W. Bush

Do you have blacks, too?

George W. Bush

I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.

George W. Bush

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

George W. Bush

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

George W. Bush

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

George W. Bush

I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right.

George V. Higgins

A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.

George Carlin

Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!

Gail Sheehy

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

Frank Warren

Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet.