Silly Quotes - Page 25

• Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Wonderful, Wells

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• Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Reality, Small Numbers

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• I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

  Abraham Pais

  War, Lying, Ideas

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 50), 2000.

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• Just because I had a winner, it doesn't mean I'm gonna be like, "OK, I need a new 'Successful.'" That's silly. I just don't want anything to sound like anything else, which I hope is everybody's vision.

  Drake

  Mean, Successful, Vision

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2016.

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• I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.

  Will Smith

  Attention, Littles, Trouble

  "Will Smith and Margot Robbie Talk FOCUS, SUICIDE SQUAD, and More". Press conference, collider.com. February 24, 2015.

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• You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think.

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Sexy, Art

  "Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Talk SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR". Press conference, collider.com. August 19, 2014.

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• I do dark [humor]. I like people who are silly and weird and people who are surprising and good at what they do.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Dark, People, Surprising

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Stars, Dad, Drama

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

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• If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

  Mathieu Amalric

  Sense Of Humor, Cannes, Approach

  The Hollywood Reporter interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 11, 2010.

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• What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!

  John Lydon

  Sex, People, Records

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• [Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Moses, Said, Ten Commandments

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• A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, School, Circles

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

  Joseph Addison

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Believe, Mind, Pops

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• That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Age, Peculiar

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• I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

  William Shenstone

  Character, People, Doe

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.107

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• Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

  Charles Kingsley

  Crush, Children, Selfish

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A silly row which got out of hand.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hands, Argument

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• I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Way, Speak

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules.

  Judith Martin

  Ideas, People, Language

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

  Gail Sheehy

  America, Doe, Prostitution

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

  Jean Kerr

  Mother, Intelligent, Mature

  Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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• Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

  Horace Walpole

  Discovery, Serendipity, Three

  Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.

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• I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

  Susan Sontag

  Education, Book, Pride

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• The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

  Freya Stark

  Animal, House, Camels

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press

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