Silly Quotes - Page 27

• Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Genius, Artistic, Dogma

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them. This dystopian trend picks up on that little part of your life where everything feels really extreme and it honors that part of your life and says, "Yeah. It is the end of the world. Look at it."

  Veronica Roth

  Teenager, Thinking, Honor

  "Interview: Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". "Jacket Copy", latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

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• A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.

  Susan Cheever

  Cake, White, Family And Friends

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• People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Anger, Mean, People

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• There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

  Esther Meynell

  Animal, Sheep, Lambs

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.

  Patricia Wentworth

  People, Looks, Opinion

  Patricia Wentworth (1953). “Vanishing point”

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• When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

  Courteney Cox

  Mom, Dad, Home

  "Tim Allen, Courteney Cox for “Zoom”". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. August 11, 2006.

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• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  Dan Futterman

  Dumb, Shooting, Territory

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 13, 1998.

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• I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.

  Laurie Holden

  Crush, Fighting, Laughing

  "Laurie Holden Exclusive Interview THE WALKING DEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 1, 2010.

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• I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

  Kevin Bacon

  Historic, Silly Movie

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• The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

  George Eliot

  Writing, People, Fancy

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• This is some fellow,
  Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
  A saucy roughness and constrains the garb
  Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!
  An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!
  And they will take it so; if not he's plain.
  These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
  Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,
  Than twenty silly, ducking observants,
  That stretch their duty nicely.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Crafts, Knaves

  William Shakespeare (1866). “A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: The Choice Sayings of His Principal Characters, Analytically and Alphabetically Arranged”, p.38

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• I'm 41, I'm a woman, not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.

  Shirley Manson

  Kids, Pops, Interest

  "Garbage's Shirley Manson on getting the band back together and kissing major labels goodbye". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Ive been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

  Diane Neal

  Years, Comedian, I Can

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• Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Crazy, Motherhood, Conceited

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• I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.

  Taylor Lautner

  Fun, Goofs, Having Fun

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• It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

  Kevin Smith

  People, World, Certain

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• The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

  Francois de la Noue

  Men, Deceit, Complaining

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• I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht.

  Justin Kirk

  Play, Circles, Sound

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• To imagine being in Germany having a home crowd is kind of silly, but we'll take it.

  Landon Donovan

  Home, Germany, Crowds

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• I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.

  Jess Walter

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Brother, Innovation, Way

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• I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Python, Bigs

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• Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Car, Looks

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• Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Buddhism, Practice

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