Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
~By Arthur Golden ~
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
~By Marcia Wallace ~
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
~By Red Skelton ~
They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
~By Cass Elliot ~
You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.
~By Peter Cushing ~
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
~By Pam Brown ~
They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.
~By Roland Joffe ~
Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.
~By Kevin McDonald ~
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.
~By Saffron Burrows ~
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.
~By Sid Vicious ~
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
~By Roger Waters ~
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
~By Barry Levinson ~
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!
~By Danielle Steel ~
I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.
~By Alan Price ~
I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.
~By Della Reese ~
In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
~By Wallace Stevens ~
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
~By Barry Gibb ~
Silly sitcoms are designed to attract juveniles of all ages.
~By John J. O'Connor ~
No, Jar Jar Binks was fine by me but probably went on a little bit too long. When they were in trouble and were battling, it should have been more serious and it became a bit too silly.
~By Jeremy Bulloch ~
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.
~By Judy Davis ~
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
~By James Harvey Robinson ~
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Actually I consider myself a superficially normal looking person who has a vast collection of bizarre silly porn hidden in his basement, as all normal looking people do, and I'm keeping it hidden from everyone in the world except those few people with access to the Internet.
~By Chris A. Bridges ~
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
~By Michael Schudson ~
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
~By Horace ~
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
~By Angela Carter ~
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
~By Harold Pinter ~
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
~By William Law ~
Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
~By Ben Elton ~
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
~By Phil Donahue ~
I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly "Scrubs" guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
~By Zach Braff ~
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.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
~By Taryn Manning ~
I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
~By Naomi Judd ~
I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.
~By John Mayer ~
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.
~By Peter Farrelly ~
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
~By Diane Cilento ~
First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
~By Milos Forman ~
When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.
~By Frank Rich ~
I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.
~By Connie Chung ~
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
~By Diogenes ~
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
~By Russell Hoban ~
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
~By Salma Hayek ~
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.
~By Rick Danko ~
It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
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.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
~By Charles Manson ~
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~By Rose Franken ~
I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.
~By Glenn Ford ~
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
~By Horace ~
I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.
~By Richard Donner ~
Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.
~By Erika Slezak ~
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
~By Tanith Lee ~
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.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.
~By Dick Smothers ~
If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings.
~By Wayne Rooney ~
Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.
~By Puff Daddy ~
Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
~By Arthur Machen ~
I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
~By Hank Azaria ~
Don't be afraid to look silly.
~By Tara Strong ~
I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
~By Renny Harlin ~
I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.
~By Matthew Modine ~
I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.
~By Denis Johnson ~
The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
~By John von Neumann ~
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
~By Gaius Valerius Catullus ~
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.
~By Tim Vine ~
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
~By Democritus ~
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
~By Michael Caine ~
I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~
I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
~By Tim Vine ~
I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.
~By Sharon Tate ~
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
~By Bob Woodward ~
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