Silly Quotes - Page 16

• "I am silly, now and then," Sandry admitted. "My mother said I was, anyway." "If you know, you can stop it." Carefully Daja placed a candle behind Trader Koma's image. "Then you've never been silly, or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning."

  Tamora Pierce

  Mother, Warning, Now And Then

  "Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic, Book 1)". Book by Tamora Pierce, 1997.

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• We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Pieces, Laughed

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.230, Penguin

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• It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sin

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• People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.

  Charles M. Schulz

  People, Acting, Littles

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• This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Appreciate, Political

  "Bush Finds It Easy to Slip on an Icy Campaign Trail". articles.latimes.com. January 28, 2000.

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• And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Two, Feelings

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• The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

  A. A. Milne

  Blue, Views, People

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.80, Egmont UK

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• Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Girl, Mean, Years

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Enemy

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• 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

  Animal, Hunting, Might

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• Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hero, Mean, Feels

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.227, Penguin

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• 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.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kissing, Thinking, Worry

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Home, Mirrors

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• Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

  Joanna Russ

  Beautiful, Fun, Tombstone

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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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• 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Doors, Cities

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Want, Littles

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• The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.

  Ridley Pearson

  Boys, Names, Mollusks

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• That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Olives, Anna, Said

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