Silly Quotes - Page 10

• 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, Kissing, Knees

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

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• After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

  Robert Hass

  Distance, Hands, Talking

  Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”

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• He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fun, Apples, People

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• It ain't over 'til it's over.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 26 Sept. 1977. Berra notes in The Yogi Book (1998): "That was my answer to a reporter when I was managing the New York Mets in July 1973.We were about nine games out of first place.We went on to win the division." Berra was quoted using the similar expression "You're not out of it until you're out of it" in N.Y. Times, 30 June 1974. See Ralph Carpenter 1

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• We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.

  H. G. Wells

  Real, Race, Useless

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.725, Delphi Classics

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• In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Running, Flower, Should Have

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• Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

  James Joyce

  Heart, Rivers, Long

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• I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Blow, Night, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Complete Edition with the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling): Classic of children's literature from one of the most popular writers in England, known for Kim, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Stalky & Co, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three”, p.16, e-artnow

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• The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, People, Facts

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• I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Stupid, Woods, Scared

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.101, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Gail Carriger

  Ivy, Hats, Victim

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• There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?" - Aidan Bedwyn

  Mary Balogh

  Ideas, Ever After, Moments

  Mary Balogh (2003). “Slightly Married”, p.342, Dell

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Empty Rooms, Hysteria, Laughing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  Andre Breton

  Eye, Names, Two

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

  Lauren Weisberger

  Want, Being Silly, Devil Wears Prada

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• In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn’t have to know.

  Libba Bray

  Eye, Shoes, Feet

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.249, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• They misunderestimated me.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Hilarious, Stupid

  "Top 10 Bushisms". content.time.com.

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• The question is… How did a girl like Annabelle manage to talk a man like you into joining our silly little family party?” Annabelle smiled sweetly. “I promised he could tie me up afterward and spank me.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Girl, Party, Men

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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

  Thinking, Tanks, Dollars

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• It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Tired, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• ...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Mean, Eye

  George Macdonald (2015). “MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Song, Stars

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• This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus the sad days passed slowly by'--or 'the years rolled on their weary course'--or 'time went on'--because it is silly; of course time goes on--whether you say so or not. So I shall just tell you the nice, interesting parts--and in between you will understand that we had our meals and got up and went to bed, and dull things like that.

  E. Nesbit

  Nice, Years, Interesting

  E. Nesbit (2004). “The Railway Children”, p.334, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Sleep, Funny Things

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Bird, Irrational Fear

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