Silly Quotes - Page 7

• Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Intelligent, Facts, Graphic Novels

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• I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Writing, Simple

  "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak" by Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

  Vikram Seth

  Might, Dear, Reader

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• You need to be silly to be funny.

  William Shatner

  Funny, Needs, Being Silly

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• My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

  William Shatner

  Mother

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• I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

  Mike Shinoda

  Running, Brother, Kids

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

  Shel Silverstein

  Cute, Wise, Wisdom

  Shel Silverstein, “Tell Me”

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• When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Indecisive, Easier, Really Amazing

  "Wanted: one leading man". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2004.

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• My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

  Richard Simmons

  Crazy, Men, Gregarious

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• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, War, Passion

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• Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.

  Matt Smith

  Ties, Boots, Way

  "When Esquire met Doctor Who". Interview, www.esquire.co.uk. April 1, 2010.

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• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  Herbert Spencer

  Humor, Men, Foolish Man

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'State Tamperings with Money and Banks'

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• You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Eye, Connections, Serious

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

  Danielle Steel

  Summer, Children, Lying

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• When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

  Ben Stein

  Dad, Father, Smart

  "Ben Stein Wants You To Sleep". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

  Gertrude Stein

  Jobs, Lying, Stupid

  Gertrude Stein (2004). “Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.

  Kristen Stewart

  Kids, Dolls, Starting Out

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• There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

  Twyla Tharp

  Stupid, Mean, Perfectly Good

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• The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

  Sid Vicious

  Dirty, Naughty, Band

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• Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Stupid, May, Strange

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Country, Military

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• Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

  William Westmoreland

  Confused, Thinking, Political

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• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

  Sloan Wilson

  Funny, Success, Business

  Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing

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• Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wise, Stupidity, May

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 39e, 1980.

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