Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Eliot

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Jaron Lanier

Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.

Jane Pauley

Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

Ernest Cline

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

Cassandra Clare

I adore Wilkie Collins,” Tessa cried. “Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White … Are you laughing at me?” “Not at you,” said Will, grinning, “more because of you. I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.” “Well, they are, aren’t they? Isn’t there anything you love like that? And don’t say ‘spats’ or ‘lawn tennis’ or something silly.” “Good Lord,” he said with mock horror, “it’s like she knows me already.

Carmen Electra

I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.

Carmen Electra

My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to.

Carmen Electra

There's moments when I think it's kind of silly and I wish I would've just stayed natural

Ewan McGregor

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

Evan Peters

A lot of people don't know that I'm really a silly guy. I don't take anything seriously. It takes a lot of energy for me to take something seriously.

Mohamed El-Erian

The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend my money to governments who want me to pay them. I am going to go into the stock market where I can get positive returns!"

James Dyson

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

Keith Richards

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

Katie Melua

I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff... Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].

Kim Harrison

Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here.

Isak Dinesen

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

Imogen Cunningham

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

Imogen Cunningham

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

J. K. Rowling

... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

J. K. Rowling

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

Greg James

What's most troubling is the open water swim. It's windy, the waves are getting in your face and the water is a bit dirty. And there's silly things like you can't touch the bottom if you swallow a mouthful of water.

Greg James

Also it'll be unbelievably cold in there and the thing I'm probably most worried about is my face. That sounds silly but it's very difficult, if you're in cold temperature water, to get your head under because it takes your breath away. And then your hands go numb so you try and wriggle your fingers while swimming to warm up. It's very tough.

Grace Jones

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

J. Philippe Rushton

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

Gloria Allred

There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

Horace Walpole

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

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.

Paul Arden

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.

Judd Apatow

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

Paul Prudhomme

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.