Silly Quotes - Page 20

• If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

  Doris Day

  Men, People, Doe

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• You’re going to be my grandmother.” “You silly child. In my heart, I’ve been your grandmother for years. I’ve just been waiting for you to make it official.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Heart, Grandmother

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• How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

  Steven Levenkron

  Self, People, Energy

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• Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Character, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• You forgot to cough!” he said. “Sorry.” She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.” “Now, Peder, there’s plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face.” He stroked his chin. “You’re right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection.” She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud.

  Shannon Hale

  Sorry, Practice, Perfection

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• Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

  Horace

  Stupid, Mountain, Littles

  'Ars Poetica' l. 139

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• After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.

  Matthew Quick

  Powerful, Thinking, Safe

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake! Gideon raised one eyebrow. "What did you expect?" he asked, amused. "You thought I was an android put together by Uncle Falk and Mr. George?

  Kerstin Gier

  Mother, Uncles, Eyebrows

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• I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Guy, Eccentric, Social

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• It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

  Maeve Binchy

  Mean, Trying, Labels

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• 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.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Thinking, White

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• That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?" "Weapons," Frank grumbled. "Right. I've never handled weapons before." Grandmother's nostrils flared. "Was that sarcasm, Fai Zhang?" "Yes, Grandmother." "Good. There may be hope for you yet.

  Rick Riordan

  Grandmother, Sarcasm, Thinking

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• Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Fun, Squares, Long

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• Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more offended by the sight of exquisitely tailored plutocrats, who owe their continued wealth to government guarantees, whining that President Obama has said mean things about them than I am by the sight of ragtag young people denouncing consumerism.

  Paul Krugman

  Character, Mean, Government

  "Confronting the Malefactors". www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2011.

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

  George Eliot

  Men, Unhappy, Routine

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• Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Book, Thinking

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• I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Love You, Eye

  "Fictional character: Rhett". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

  O. J. Simpson

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Civilization, Weakness

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “The trail of the dinosaur & other essays”

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• The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

  Jonathan Alter

  Art, Analyzing, Politician

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round. For though in winter boughs are bare, Let us not once forget Their summer glory, when these leaves Caught the great Sun in their strong net; And made him, in the lower air, Tremble - no bigger than a star!

  W. H. Davies

  Summer, Dog, Strong

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• Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

  Nigel Kneale

  Brother, Stupid, Bigs

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• The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Stupid, Cases, Ruling

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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 had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

  Andre Benjamin

  Tattoo, Regret, Leaving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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