Silly Quotes - Page 20

• I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

  Richard Donner

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

  Roland Joffe

  Stupid, Stories, Elements

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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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• There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Angel, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Vegas, Gambling, Class

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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• But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

  Neil Innes

  Song, Titles, Looks

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• It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

  Russell Hoban

  Animal, Earth, Pet Loss

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.146, A&C Black

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

  Yuri Razuvaev

  Play, Example, Chess

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• It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all the way. [...] A pretty finale. I was obviously hoping for the beauty prize sacrificing both my rooks and all, but OK, Im [sic] afraid requirements are one makes a move of his own for that it seems. Something I could avoid doing in the last five rounds in Dresden. Silly game, this chess.

  Jan Gustafsson

  Moving, Sacrifice, Games

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• We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Agriculture, People

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• You bloody silly fool!

  Prince Philip

  Fool, Classic, Bloody

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• Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

  Jane Asher

  Dressing Up, Acting, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You [immigrants] have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

  Mona Sahlin

  Jealous, Thinking, Together

  "Multiculturalists Working to Undermine Western Civilization" by Philip Carl Salzman, www.gatestoneinstitute.org. December 16, 2017.

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• In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks.  this is not mere soft-mindedness, nor am I all that silly with the altitude.  My head has cleared in these weeks free of intrusions- mail, telephones, people and their needs- and I respond to things spontaneously, without defensive or self-conscious screens.  Still, all this feeling is astonishing: not so long ago I could say truthfully that I had not shed a tear in twenty years.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Eye, Long Ago, Years

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.138, Penguin

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• You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

  Tom Rachman

  Birth, Nonsense, Born

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• Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Girl, Mind, Rebellious

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• Now, the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else, I don't have anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.

  Matt Smith

  Smart, Gun, Black

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who" ("The Pandorica Opens", 2010), (2005- ).

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• Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

  Hank Green

  Thoughtful, Stills, Excluded

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• The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Pain, Choices

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• It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.

  Angus Young

  Song, Believe, Rocks

  Atlanta Gazette Interview, May 1979.

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