Silly Quotes - Page 7

• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Country, Military

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• Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Daisies, Novel, Enjoyment

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Scandal in Spring”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• It was silly, wasn't it? But the singing made it not silly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Singing, Made, Made It

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

  William Westmoreland

  Confused, Thinking, Political

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• Camelot is a silly place.

  Graham Chapman

  Camelot

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• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

  Sloan Wilson

  Funny, Success, Business

  Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing

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• Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Marriage, Crazy

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• What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Love Is, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

  John Mayer

  Stupid, Curves, Giving

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• You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

  Gertrude Stein

  Jobs, Lying, Stupid

  Gertrude Stein (2004). “Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

  Oscar Wilde

  Struggle, Mind, Endurance

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

  Oscar Wilde

  Love You, Boys, Three

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.393, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Christmas, Country

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”

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• A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe...

  Richard Bach

  Air, Rumor, Body

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Walk With Me, Walks

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Bluebeard”, Dial Press

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• I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.

  George A. Romero

  Notebook, Fun, Zombie

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• When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Indecisive, Easier, Really Amazing

  "Wanted: one leading man". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2004.

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• Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

  Jane Austen

  Conceited, Men, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.82, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Intelligent, Facts, Graphic Novels

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• After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

  Robert Hass

  Distance, Hands, Talking

  Robert Hass, “Meditation At Lagunitas”

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• I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Writing, Simple

  "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak" by Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

  Vikram Seth

  Might, Dear, Reader

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• You need to be silly to be funny.

  William Shatner

  Funny, Needs, Being Silly

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• My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

  William Shatner

  Mother

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