Silly Quotes - Page 18

• Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Stupid, Hero

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• The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.

  Thom Yorke

  America, Relief, Remember

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• I also found being called Sir rather silly.

  Harold Pinter

  Stupid, Literature, Found

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• Don't be afraid to look silly.

  Tara Strong

  Stupid, Looks

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• Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Hey, Rubber, Being Silly

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• Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

  Sergio Aragones

  Writing, Thinking, Car

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• If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

  Richard Mitchell

  Thinking, Choices, May

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• I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

  Andre Benjamin

  Tattoo, Regret, Leaving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

  James Dyson

  Naughty, People, Drug

  "Failure Doesn’t Suck". Interview with Chuck Salter, www.fastcompany.com. May 1, 2007.

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• I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

  Denis Johnson

  Jesus, Writing, Son

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• When I first was on Big Time Rush, the TV show, I did a lot of silly things. Among the first episodes that came out, my buddies wanted to have a viewing party, so we turned it into a drinking game. Every time I did something dumb, we took a shot. We were hammered!

  James Maslow

  Party, Drinking, Tv Shows

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• There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

  Marcia Wallace

  Answers, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

  Horace

  Stupid, Mountain, Littles

  'Ars Poetica' l. 139

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• Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Book, Thinking

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• The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Effort, Mind, Machines

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• 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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• 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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• 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, Simple, Words Of Wisdom

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• 'I am' is nothing but another name for the ego. Now you will be getting into trouble. If the ego is convinced that the only way is to drop the ego, then who is going to drop whom? And how? It will be like pulling yourself up by your own shoestrings. You will look just silly. Watch each word that you use. 'I am' is nothing but the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Names, Ego, Way

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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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• 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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