Silly Quotes - Page 38

• I used to enjoy doing silly walks on the street with my friends. Like, you know, you're walking, and then you break out in something completely ridiculous, to kind of spook out the person walking by you. I can't really do that anymore.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Break Out, Ridiculous, Kind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• [The rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio on set was raped by a bear] was as silly as Lady Gaga bumping him or moving his arm out of the way [at the Golden Globes]. People straight be bored.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Moving, Bored, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline.

  Ross Douthat

  Looks, Significant, Bigs

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The bravest thing that men do is love women.

  Mort Sahl

  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Men

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• The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Essence, Liberty, Doe

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• You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

  Sofia Coppola

  Fashion, Thinking, Superficial

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

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• It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Done, Body

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

  Ronald Coase

  May, Youth, Modern

  "The Firm, the Market, and the Law (Note on the problem of social costs)". Book by Ronald Coase (p. 185), 1988.

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• There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.

  Edward Condon

  Jobs, Teaching, School

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• A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

  Chauncey Depew

  Funny, Women, Naughty

  "FPA Book of Quotations : A New Collection of Famous Sayings". Book by Franklin Pierce Adams, 1952.

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• ... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

  Angelina Jolie

  Weed, Hate, Feelings

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• It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

  Terry Eagleton

  Frustration, Self, People

  The Guardian, October 27, 1992.

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• A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Latin, Language, Made

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1948). “The Living Thoughts of Cervantes”

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• I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

  Walter Raleigh

  Love, Fun, Race

  "Wishes of an Elderly Man" l. 1 (1923)

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• Love is someone you can be silly with

  Cecil Beaton

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sports, Fun, Husband

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

  Anthony Burgess

  Nature, Intelligent, Views

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.

  Alice McDermott

  Laughter, Names, Guy

  Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black

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• There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to characters in their novels. False modesty, faugh!

  Max Shulman

  Book, Character, Names

  Max Shulman (2016). “The Zebra Derby: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Love You, Easy, Finding Someone

  Sabrina Jeffries (2005). “To Pleasure a Prince”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The farmer, Vic, told me to look at all the turkeys and pick one out. I saw a cute one with a silly walk and cried, 'Him!' Before my pointing finger had even dropped to my side, Vic had grabbed the turkey by the neck and slit [the animal's] throat. Blood and feathers went flying. I had sentenced that turkey to death! Up until then, I didn't know where meat came from—and I've been a vegetarian ever since.

  Sarah Silverman

  Cute, Dad, Animal

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• It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

  Gregory Peck

  Simple, Seems

  "Majestic Presence". www.thehindu.com. June 20, 2003.

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• Laughter is key. Dancing a must. Because oh, how we do love both things! But most important, possess the ability to be present, be true to your deepest wishes, intentions. Do good unto others, to yourself. Being true to yourself is one of the greatest attributes. Happiness ensues. Be present. Be kind. Be patient. Be honest. Find moments to be silly. The results will always be rewarding.

  Dianna Agron

  Laughter, Keys, Dancing

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• Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

  Paul Giamatti

  Playing Dress Up, Acting, Dresses

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

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• It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a disservice by thinking it’s not something ultimately important. I always was saying, ‘I’m not saving lives; I’m not a brain surgeon.’ And that’s true—I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

  Emma Stone

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

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