Silly Quotes - Page 12

• So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its just kind of silly even for us.

  Derek Landy

  Mean, Kind, Headless

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• I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.

  Laura Moriarty

  Thinking, Opposites, Worry

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• I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Blow, Night, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Complete Edition with the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling): Classic of children's literature from one of the most popular writers in England, known for Kim, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Stalky & Co, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three”, p.16, e-artnow

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• It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

  Ernest Hemingway

  Believe, Men, Sea

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• The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, People, Facts

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

  Lewis Buzbee

  Maturity, Craving, Silly Things

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

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• Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just to take a nice silly walk in Central Park with. Somebody who wouldn't judge another for the prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, and who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations.

  Rachel Cohn

  Running, Prayer, Nice

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.72, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Night, People, Mind

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• She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell the truth all the time? To run around saying it did matter to me that I live in a world where you can grow old and be alone and have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for friends? A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind’s a bit senile or silly? Did she think that didn’t bother me underneath?

  Paul Zindel

  Running, Thinking, Hands

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• For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Tiny, Kind, Certain

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• While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dream, Sleep, Would Be

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1368, Dell

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• The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

  John Green

  War, Wine, Sadness

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• Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it was getting harder. Coupled with the whole “naval this, and naval that,” with its undeniable belly-button connotations, we were essentially turning into a sugar-jacked, sleep-deprived flock of incoherent, silly, recombinant-DNA goofballs. This was not going to end well.

  James Patterson

  Sleep, Dna, Sugar

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• I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, "Frankie, you're silly, you're lazy, you're talented, you're passionate, you're restrained, you're blossoming, you're contrary." I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Sweet, Missing

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in sighs and glances and distance to speak for them instead. How dangerous that was! How easy it must be to misinterpret a sigh or a look.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Distance, Adults, Looks

  Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.46, Delacorte Press

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• "I am silly, now and then," Sandry admitted. "My mother said I was, anyway." "If you know, you can stop it." Carefully Daja placed a candle behind Trader Koma's image. "Then you've never been silly, or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning."

  Tamora Pierce

  Mother, Warning, Now And Then

  "Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic, Book 1)". Book by Tamora Pierce, 1997.

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• We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Pieces, Laughed

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.230, Penguin

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• It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sin

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• People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.

  Charles M. Schulz

  People, Acting, Littles

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• And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Two, Feelings

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• The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).

  A. A. Milne

  Blue, Views, People

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.80, Egmont UK

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• Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Girl, Mean, Years

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

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• Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hero, Mean, Feels

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.227, Penguin

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• It was completely fifth garde and completely silly and I loved it, because he wasn't afraid to be silly. It was like kissing him first - I could do whatever I wanted and not have to worry what he'd think of me.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kissing, Thinking, Worry

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