Silly Quotes - Page 17

• There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.

  Catullus

  Stupid, Laughing

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (1962). “Tibullus”

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• Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Believe, Mean, Kissing

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• One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

  Galen Beckett

  Doe, Purpose, Idiot

  Galen Beckett (2010). “The House on Durrow Street”, p.206, Spectra

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• Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I enjoyed it." "The music?" "No. The way you listened to it.

  Ayn Rand

  Beautiful, Thinking, Missing

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.88, Penguin

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• I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Missing, My Best Friend

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

  Donald Miller

  Letting Go, Lying, Math

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• Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.

  Colum McCann

  Song, Wall, Return

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Moving, Believe

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap

  Amy Carmichael

  Soul, Training, Littles

  Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.14, CLC Publications

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• Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Animal, People

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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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• 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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• It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word, Gabrielle O'Callaghan," it said softly. "I will protect you." "Right. The word of the blackest fairy, the legendary liar, the great deceiver," she mocked. How dare it offer its word like it might actually mean something? A muscle leapt in its jaw. "That is not all I have been, Gabrielle. I have been, and am, many things." "Oh, of course, silly me, I left out consummate seducer and ravager of innocence.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Liars, Mean, Giving

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.70, Delacorte Press

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• She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doors, Feelings, Levels

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

  Anne Frank

  Sentimental, Helping, Desperate

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.108, GENERAL PRESS

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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• She had wanted more than she could have. She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her. In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly title.

  Sarah MacLean

  Names, Important, Titles

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• The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Moving, Looks

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• Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Song, Way, Want

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• When I first was on Big Time Rush, the TV show, I did a lot of silly things. Among the first episodes that came out, my buddies wanted to have a viewing party, so we turned it into a drinking game. Every time I did something dumb, we took a shot. We were hammered!

  James Maslow

  Party, Drinking, Tv Shows

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• I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sadness, Two, Sick

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Believe, Book

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Best of Oscar Wilde”, p.164, Jaico Publishing House

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• Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person!

  Rick Riordan

  Nasty, Humans, Persons

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.189, Penguin UK

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• I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.

  Derek Landy

  Sorry, Ridiculous, Accents

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• They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Dream, Song

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1775, Bantam

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