Silly Quotes - Page 17

• Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny Love, Writing, Week

  "Fictional character: Wolf J. Flywheel". "The Big Store", 1941.

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• Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Music, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

  Carolyn Wells

  Stupid, Fate, Simple

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• I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

  Joan Cusack

  Dad, Nice, Men

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

  Stanley Tucci

  Stupid, Way, Film

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• Honestly, I'm one of the ones who is least like my character, just because I like to make people laugh and have a good time-and be kind of fun and silly. Jake is very composed, has his guard up, and is a bit damaged. But Cory Monteith is pretty much like Finn. I think they both kind of have that goofy sense of humor. Cory is so hilarious in his everyday life, just like Finn is.

  Jacob Artist

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Hot Topic: Jacob Artist" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. November 02, 2012.

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• Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

  Demi Lovato

  Different, Path, Life Is

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• It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

  Barbra Streisand

  Successful, Tradition, Persons

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• What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

  Saffron Burrows

  Stupid, Sometimes, Wonder

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• My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Thinking, Too Much, Honest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!

  Emily Osment

  Embarrassed, Silly Things

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• A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.

  Gene Wilder

  Children, Stupid, Actors

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

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• I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.

  Eric Stoltz

  Regret, Thinking, Pretty Woman

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• Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.

  Lucy Liu

  Girl, Play, Likes

  "Fictional character: O-Ren Ishii". "Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character

  Taryn Manning

  Stupid, Character, Being Weird

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• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There’s an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren’t just vampires. There’s a wolf pack.

  Taylor Lautner

  Book, Vampire, Wolf Packs

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand.'

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Tattoo, Stupid, Hands

  Launch Magazine, October 30, 1998.

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• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  Larisa Oleynik

  Mom, Attitude, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had to overcome many things, many people telling me no. If you want it, and you believe in it, you have to do it. And I know it’s silly, and I know I’m kind of irrationally optimistic, but you have to be and you can’t really have another plan, because you’re going to fall back on it.

  Crystal Reed

  Believe, Fall, Optimistic

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• I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.

  Connie Chung

  War, Stupid, Mean

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• A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will permit his aged mother to carry pails of water and armfuls of wood, or his wife to lug a twenty-pound baby, hour after hour, without ever offe

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Love, Girl, Mother

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Science, Numbers

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• Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stress, Stupid, Exercise

  "What Rush Limbaugh Really Thinks of You" by Ken Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2009.

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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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