Silly Quotes - Page 24

• I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

  Anthony Hamilton

  Heartbroken, Fun, Color

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• For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

  Robbie Robertson

  Years, Play, Calling

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• We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

  Jill McCorkle

  Children, Kids, Loss

  Jill McCorkle (2003). “Creatures of Habit”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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• To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.

  Georges Bernanos

  Girl, People, Evil

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.

  Tom Peters

  Kings, Business, Want

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.55, Vintage

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• Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Humor, Play

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• He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wisdom, Way, Gone

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• Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

  Frank R. Stockton

  People, Together, Herds

  Frank R. Stockton (1906). “THE QUEEN'S MUSEUM AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES”

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• I like silly stuff, too. I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun.

  Mitt Romney

  Fun, Twilight, Awkward

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• My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.

  Amy Sedaris

  Brother, Littles, Hardwood

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• I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

  Renny Harlin

  Cutting, Simple, Squash

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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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• Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

  Tom Lehrer

  Stupid, Answers, Wells

  Song: New Math, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

  Allen Ginsberg

  Stupid, Writing, America

  "America" l. 55 (1956)

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• In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Stupid, Wind, Tree

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• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  Victor Garber

  Mean, Aliases, Know How

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

  Ben Elton

  Stupid, Wish, Used

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• There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.

  Catullus

  Stupid, Laughing

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (1962). “Tibullus”

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• When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things that I was vehemently of pissed off about, I would end up loving them two years later. So I just tried to mellow out. Like there's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

  Jeff Mangum

  Meaningful, Music Is

  "Song: "Oh Comely" ("In the Aeroplane Over the Sea")". February 10, 1998.

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• 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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• Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, Heart, Political

  "Today Show Highlights Sarah Palin's 'Refudiate,' Skipped Biden Gaffe". "Today Show" with Peter Alexander, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2010.

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• 'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'

  Sarah Palin

  Stupid, Coins, Conservative

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

  Sarah Palin

  Law, Conservative, Republican

  "Sarah Palin on National Day of Prayer Controversy". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2010.

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• What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

  John McCain

  Might, Conservative, Unexpected

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