Silly Things Quotes

• If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

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• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teacher

  "The New York World-Telegram and Sun" Newspaper, 1961.

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• Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Silly, Maturity, Craving

  Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.302, Macmillan

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• Dreams are just silly things that pass through your mind at night. "Dreaming" is out-of-the-body experiences where you are traveling through the different dimensions - most of which you don't remember.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Silly, Night

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• In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Silly, Oneness

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• It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

  Amber Dermont

  Silly, People, Obsession

  Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

  Janet Jackson

  Children, Growing Up, Silly

  "I've finished talking about Michael. I've done it all my career" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

  Michael Madsen

  Real, Silly, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I'm always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety.

  Sutton Foster

  Silly, Writing, People

  "PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Sutton Foster; Catching Up With the Broadway and 'Bunheads' Star". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. September 8, 2012.

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• I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

  Keisha Castle-Hughes

  Growing Up, Silly, Able

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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, Silly, Player

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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, Silly

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

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• From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work, odd as that may appear to others at times. As Piglet put it in Winnie-the-Pooh, "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right."

  Benjamin Hoff

  Block, Silly, Simple

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• My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

  Diane Cilento

  Father, Silly, Successful

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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

  Silly, Jealous, Thinking

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

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• I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.

  Michael Laudrup

  Football, Silly, League

  "Michael Laudrup hits out over 'silly' sacking by Swansea City". www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

  Duff Cooper

  Silly, Wine, Foolish

  Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

  A. P. Herbert

  Money, War, Silly

  1931 'Too Much!'.

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• Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.

  Erika Slezak

  Running, Silly, People

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

  Larry Wall

  Silly, Purpose

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

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• Baywatch was a turning point for me. Reluctantly famous (in over 150 countries) I tried to make sense of my place on earth. I started to realize -- while being interviewed endlessly about silly things. That I had a Voice!!!

  Pamela Anderson

  Country, Silly, Voice

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• Everybody would like to be good, that's the silly thing, everybody always likes it when they're having a nice time or when they're happy or when it's sunny, they all dig it; but then they go and forget about it, they never really try to make it nice. They think that it just comes along and it's nice if you're lucky, or if you're unlucky it's bad for you.

  George Harrison

  Nice, Silly, Thinking

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Running, Silly, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in France, which was all about motorists and seeing if it was worth driving an extra 50 miles for a restaurant. It's a silly thing. Why do you want to help a tire company? You don't owe them nothing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Silly, World, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Silly, Guitar

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's new album 'California'". Coup De Main interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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