Being Silly Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Silly, People, Done

  1816 Emma, ch.26.

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• But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

  Terry Pratchett

  Silly, Mean, Wind

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• 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.

  Ally Carter

  Silly, Kissing, Color

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Silly, Knows

  Allen Ginsberg (2013). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.1364, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Silly, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• It wouldn't interest me to try to sound like Cop or something. It would be silly and soul-crushing.

  Michael Gira

  Crush, Silly, Soul

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

  Mark Hoppus

  Teacher, Silly, Son

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• I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

  Terry Gilliam

  Silly, Mobster, Violent

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• As an actor you're only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don't like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money... an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You'll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Mistake, Stupid, Silly

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• Ive been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

  Diane Neal

  Silly, Years, Comedian

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• When I get hired as an actor as opposed to a writer, one of things that's exciting for me is doing stuff I wouldn't normally do myself. So whether it's a kid's movie or a voice in animation or in this case - where I just get to be silly, it's a different kind of comedy for me. As a performer, it's a different pleasure than when you're writing or directing. As a performer, you're just in the hands of the director and you go with whatever they want to do.

  Stephen Merchant

  Silly, Writing, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm trying to manufacture a sleepover feel; like a tree house or a clubhouse. I want people to be silly and play and feel safe and some people, you have to coax them into that space and some people bring me further into that space, even past the point that I wanted to go.

  Pete Holmes

  Silly, Past, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  David Attenborough

  Silly, Animal, Python

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• Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

  Jean Kerr

  Mother, Silly, Intelligent

  Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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• The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it's too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that.

  Juliette Lewis

  Beautiful, Dad, Silly

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.

  Lauren Weisberger

  Silly, Want, Devil Wears Prada

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• Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?

  Dave Barry

  Silly, Thinking, Tanks

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• I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

  Rick Yancey

  Silly, Ideas, Justified

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again." "Are you going to kiss the sand?" I asked. "Don't be ridiculous." "Now I'M the one being silly?" "Yes.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Beach, Silly, Kissing

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Sea Glass”, p.223, Harlequin

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• His gaze was a lot steadier than her heartbeat. “She’s the reason for those whispered phone calls I used to overhear, isn’t she?” “Don’t be silly. I was talking to my lover.” “She told me she lives at a place called Brookdale. After I hung up, I did a little research on the Web. Your talent for obfuscation continues to amaze me.” “Hey, I haven’t obfuscated in weeks. Makes you go blind.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Silly, Talking, Phones

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• I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.

  Laura Moriarty

  Silly, Thinking, Opposites

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

  John McCain

  Silly, Might, Conservative

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• Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny Love, Silly, Writing

  "Fictional character: Wolf J. Flywheel". "The Big Store", 1941.

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• My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.

  Susan Boyle

  Bullying, Silly, Peaceful

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• When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

  Alanis Morissette

  Positive, Song, Pain

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