Silly Quotes - Page 23

• The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.

  Roman Coppola

  Book, School, Europe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

  Tom Conti

  People, Fame, Disappointed

  "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview With Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?

  Jeff Dunham

  Dog, Nice, Guitar

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

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• If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Changing Your Life

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• The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Way, Realizing

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• It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.

  Joel Salatin

  Country, Thinking, Land

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• It's good practice to be silly. It's good for you.

  Tatjana Maria

  Women, Practice, Being Silly

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• On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

  John Milton

  Morning, Sheep, Busy

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 8

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• Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.

  Tom Petty

  Expression, Add, Littles

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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, Night, Mind

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• When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things that I was vehemently of pissed off about, I would end up loving them two years later. So I just tried to mellow out. Like there's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

  Natalie Portman

  Jobs, Voice, Clothes

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

  Jeff Mangum

  Meaningful, Music Is

  "Song: "Oh Comely" ("In the Aeroplane Over the Sea")". February 10, 1998.

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• Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don’t know, and so much that we know we don’t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Determination, Humility, Commitment

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.25, Anchor

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• Give yourself a compliment every day. I know this sounds silly, but it really is important. As girls, we spend countless hours focusing on our flaws and trying to correct them or cover them up. It's essential to focus on something you like about yourself. Maybe you're having a good hair day or your skin is looking especially healthy. Take a moment each day to focus on the good, and then try to carry that with you throughout the day, because while bangs don't look good on everyone, confidence does.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Hair, Giving

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• Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.

  Antony Sher

  Party, Opposites, Actors

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• Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

  Criss Jami

  Certain, Standards, Brilliance

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.6, Criss Jami

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• The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clever, Hats, Poor

  1904 Larry Doyle. John Bull's Other Island, act 1.

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• All I know is it’s silly to chase fun when all you need is the ground underneath you to be solid. And I don’t expect to be one of those people that does cartwheels in yogurt commercials. I wanna be the cartoon character in that antidepressant ad who has, like, little lines under her eyes, and the divot in the middle of the pill is the pill’s mouth... have you seen this ad? It’s very good. It’s for Abilify, which is not a word.

  Julie Klausner

  Fun, Character, Eye

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• Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.

  Craig Stone

  Running, Argument, Sometimes

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• Love is a grin, a look in the eye whispering what are we doing, appearing in silly arguments had for the sake of them.

  Craig Stone

  Eye, Love Is, Looks

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• For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the season wore on I lost my patience with some of those folks unfortunately. I think I overdosed on ridiculous/likely fake stories. I certainly learned a lot about the kind of people that invest a large portion of their life on fringe subjects - they're all white. I think there's something interesting about the subjects, (UFOS, etc) but the study of them has often been overrun by silly thinking.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, White, People

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• Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.

  Stephen Leacock

  Years, Symbolism, Romance

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.49, University of Toronto Press

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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, Character, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Book, Reading

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