Silly Quotes - Page 3

• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Smart, Stupid

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• We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Maps, Lines, Grind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested.

  Tom Rush

  Mixing, Stuff, Serious

  "Tom Rush Interview: Celebrating 50 Years of Storytelling and Music". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. November 26, 2012.

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

  Marshall Cook

  Order, Ideas, People

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• They got special terms that they use when they're pregnant. They don't even say pregnant, got special words they use - I'm expecting. Expecting what? I'm expecting a child, silly. Well, then, you probably got a good shot!

  Brad Stine

  Children, Special, Use

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• Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Writing, Play

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• Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Safety Pins, People

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• My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.

  Cole Hamels

  Mom, Dad, Slap

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• If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

  Voltaire

  Said, Ifs

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• So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

  Richard Bach

  Truth, Crazy, Ideas

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• We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

  Mabel Robinson

  Children, Youth, Forgotten

  Mabel Louise Robinson (1922). “Writing for Young People”

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• I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Beer, Sight

  Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.122, Collector's Library

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• Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Russell Pearce

  Agreement, Promise, Paper

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• It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

  Gia Coppola

  Appreciation, Art, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up at your desk - although frankly, I don't have a desk, I write in bed - you're supposed to show up at your bed and produce work. I think it's a little bit like work. I like to have fun with it, do things like make silly book trailers. I don't want to take this too seriously.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You look at Japan and Hayao Miyazaki's films are the biggest films ever made in Japan; domestically there and they play to critical acclaim around the world. He won't put more then 5 or 10 percent computer imagery in his movies. It's disappointing to me. It's a silly choice that some studios made to move out of animation. It's part of the unfortuneate preconception that I think the public has going into see animation.

  Chris Wedge

  Moving, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Since I first started acting, I never separated a character's sexuality from what they eat for breakfast. I just think it's sort of silly. If I can be a part of helping to overcome that puritanical thing in our culture, so be it. I'm happy about it.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, Acting, Overcoming

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's hard to explain. It probably sounds super silly, but I do have a lot of really weird dreams.

  Diane Birch

  Dream, Really Weird

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wear non-gender-specific clothes. I just look silly in girls' clothes. I'm quite tall, and they're never the right cut for me - T-shirts and stuff are always too low-cut or too short. I've worn boys' clothes forever because girls' stuff never felt right for me.

  Ladyhawke

  Cutting, Forever, Too Short

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm satisfied trading off the immediacy to fulfill the detailed work of the artistic end of things.

  Grant Hart

  Artistic, Compromise, Trading

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• I think Girls is so great, because versions of it are close to my own experience of moving to New York. It's a fun. You know - get to be messy and silly and irresponsible, but also wrap that up at the end of the day and be an adult. It's a fun time, but not necessarily one you want to stay in for too long.

  Andrew Rannells

  Girl, Fun, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I rely heavily on Thomas Sowell's magnificent book, Black Rednecks, White Liberals. He points out that blacks in the North perform better, academically, than whites in the South where they did not have much of an emphasis on learning. But please note that I'm not the one making that argument in that section about Michael Moore. And by the way, I'm not a man. White men have done a lot. It's silly to write a book titled, Stupid White Men.

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Book, Writing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I went to England because somebody told me to, and I loved it. And, "blessed" is a silly word to use for some people, but that's how I feel. I feel blessed.

  Caitlin Rose

  Blessed, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me, as a director and an actor, that's the main thing. "What's the heart of this story? What's the humanity of this story? And if the movie doesn't have it, then why am I watching it?" Even if it's a silly comedy, like Superbad or Knocked Up - Judd Apatow, I love, because he's all about heart. The humor comes out of the humanity.

  Tim Matheson

  Heart, Love Is, Humanity

  Source: film.avclub.com

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