Silly Quotes - Page 31

• Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

  John Locke

  Children, Curiosity, Inquiry

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• Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.

  Scott Adams

  Technology, People, Interesting

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• Marriage is rather a silly habit.

  John Osborne

  Marriage, Habit

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• The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.

  Noel Coward

  Heaven, Looks, Seven

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• It's so silly not to be nice.

  Aaron Spelling

  Nice, Being Nice

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• There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

  Claire Danes

  Light, Years, Two

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• The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it. So, I don't go out there [thinking], "Oh, I want to make this as silly as possible." In fact, sometimes I get the most enjoyment out of a sketch that plays very real - and it's so real that it's just funny.

  Harland Williams

  Real, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.

  Eugene Mirman

  Thinking, Odd, Audience

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to keeps things pretty light, try to make people laugh. I find it difficult to keep trying to promote myself. I know that's the whole point of it, to promote my music, but I like to use it to be funny and silly.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Light, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Looks, Method

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

  Marvin Minsky

  Universe

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• At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point.

  Nhat Hanh

  Stress, Simple, Littles

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.66, Buddhist Publication Society

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• Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Art, Drawing, Dancing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons.

  Kenneth Prewitt

  Clever, Agency, Census Bureau

  "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.

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• A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

  Umberto Eco

  Important, Filters, Information

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of standup is there is room for everyone, and years of performing in front of crowds will dictate what you can or can't do.

  Ted Alexandro

  Years, Political, Comedian

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

  David Nevins

  Real, Lying, Eye

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• Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave a place for the strange and downright impossible ones. Use ancient words. Hold on to the gangly, silly, slippy, truthful, dangerous, out-of-fashion ones.

  Kyo Maclear

  Fashion, Swings, Squash

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• My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

  Sasha Grey

  Goal, Challenges, Would Be

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• As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.

  E.W. Jackson

  Thinking, Suvs, Planets

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• Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

  Lana Wood

  Rude, Behavior, Found

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• Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Views, Noble

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Horse, Stupid, Intelligent

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• I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

  Billy Collins

  Humorous, Able, Poet

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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• We're blessed to be worrying about the silly things that we worry about when people are worrying about where they are going to sleep, and what they are going to feed their kids every day.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Blessed, Sleep, Kids

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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