Silly Quotes - Page 30

• I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

  Johnny Carson

  Eight, Car, House

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I like when they say a movie is inspired by a true story. That's kind of silly. "Hey, Mitch, did you hear that story about that lady who drove her car into the lake with her kids and they all drowned?" "Yeah, I did, and you know what - that inspires me to write a movie about a gorilla!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Wine, Romance

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• Reporters aren't stupid. We were standing around talking about which of the 900 health-care proposals that nobody's going to accept is that day's hot news. They know how silly that is. But that's what they do.

  Dave Barry

  Stupid, Talking, Care

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.

  Jon Turteltaub

  Spiritual, Magic, Important

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• I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.

  Andy Griffiths

  Book, Self, Years

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• You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mean, Successful, Play

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Personality, Soul

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

  Terry Gilliam

  Mobster, Violent, Wells

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Two men spit in their hands, help each other out, then laugh about it later. Just to be silly.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I am transgender, so 'he' is not appropriate and 'she' is problematic. I haven't been one to wage war with society to force people to address me a certain way. I let people make that decision for themselves. I don't identify as a man, so 'he' is silly in a way. Being called 'she' as a trans person, trans in the sense that I'm trans, is to be honoured in an aspect of yourself.

  Antony Hegarty

  War, Men, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

  Jack Nicholson

  Simple, Doors, Expectations

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, People, Risk

  "Lemony Snicket on the mindless pleasure of Law & Order, and how to solve each case". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. September 29, 2015.

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• For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.

  Max Irons

  Rainbow, Gold, Looks

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• I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"

  Aziz Ansari

  Thinking, People, Hula

  "Aziz Ansari and Dilshad Vadsaria On Set Interview 30 Minutes or Less". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 10, 2011.

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• I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

  Columbus Short

  Sarcasm, Guy, Cynicism

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 2, 2009.

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• I do sillier things sober, to be honest. I'm quite a silly person. Freya pulled my skirt up in a shop other day, I could've killed her - not literally, of course. But that was her not me.

  Donna Air

  Skirts, Honest, Sober

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

  Voltaire

  Religion, Priests, Credulity

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• It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

  Henry Miller

  Brother, Liars, Integrity

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• It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Sports, Playing Games, May

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• We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

  Michael Steele

  Stupid, Needs, Conservative

  "Steele: GOP needs 'hip-hop' makeover". Interview with Ralph Z. Hallow, m.washingtontimes.com. February 19, 2009.

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• And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

  David Coleman

  Years, Funny Sports, Week

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.

  William Law

  Fall, Sleep, Eye

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• So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

  William Morris

  Art, Lying, Hate

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

  Voltaire

  Liars, Men, Thinking

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.201, Penguin

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