Silly Quotes - Page 22

• He [Tinky Winky] is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Pride, Gay

  "Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet". National Liberty Journal, February 1999.

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• I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eagles, Turkeys, America

  Franklin's Letter to His Daughter (excerpt), www.greatseal.com.

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• In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Country, Kind, Rich

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.246, Vintage

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• Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Stupid, Hero

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• The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.

  Thom Yorke

  America, Relief, Remember

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• I also found being called Sir rather silly.

  Harold Pinter

  Stupid, Literature, Found

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored your strengths or may not have encouraged you to develop them. You can discover your basic capacities by experimenting with things that you always wanted to do. Don't be discouraged by notions that seem "silly" or "foolish" or "not you." Do it! Who knows what will happen?

  Ari Kiev

  Teacher, Children, Parent

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• Give yourself a compliment every day. I know this sounds silly, but it really is important. As girls, we spend countless hours focusing on our flaws and trying to correct them or cover them up. It's essential to focus on something you like about yourself. Maybe you're having a good hair day or your skin is looking especially healthy. Take a moment each day to focus on the good, and then try to carry that with you throughout the day, because while bangs don't look good on everyone, confidence does.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Hair, Giving

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• And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

  William Styron

  Writing, Today Life, Age

  "Conversations with William Styron".

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• The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term "demonstration." If a person demonstrates privately in his own home, this is not technically a demonstration but merely "acting silly" or "behaving like an ass.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Keys, Acting

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

  James Joyce

  Funny, Humorous, Book

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• I think that the whole idea of ‘no regrets’ was always a silly idea to me, because of course I regret all the places I went wrong, but that’s what creating anything, and being human, is all about. Of course if I could go back and knew what I know now, I absolutely would do it differently, I’d do it the right way, but part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again, we’ll do it the right way.

  Jesse Lacey

  Regret, Thinking, Ideas

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• My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

  Richard Simmons

  Dream, Kids, Laughing

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

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• The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

  Hedi Slimane

  Integrity, Perfect, Nonsense

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• And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

  Larry Wall

  Purpose, Silly Things

  Usenet article "Why split() drops trailing null fields?", groups.google.com. July 3, 1992.

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• This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.

  Amy Lowell

  War, Boys, Men

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• Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Laughter, Men

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.145, OUP Oxford

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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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• Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

  Bob Newhart

  Waste, Being Silly, Don't Waste Your Time

  "Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2012.

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• 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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• The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout – some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.

  Michael Muhammad Knight

  Girl, Crazy, Pie

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• I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

  Matthew Modine

  Baseball, Cards, Kind

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Two, Coward

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• If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

  Audrey Meadows

  Mother, Stupid, Flower

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• I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

  Hank Azaria

  Children, Stupid, Voice

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