Silly Quotations | Page 3

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

I love sleeping in my son's silly racecar bed. I love watching hours of 'Yo Gabba Gabba.' I love long playdates with his best friend Jack and traveling with Zev. Most of all I love coming home from work and seeing Zev run up to me saying, 'My mommy's home! My mommy's home!'

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

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

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice.

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

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.

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.

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.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

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.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

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.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions.

Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore.

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

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

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

It seems kind of silly, but it's really nice to chill in the kitchen with a friend and bake. It relaxes me, and mixing is probably my favorite part.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

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

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

If people weren't watching, I'd be so much more eccentric. I know it makes me sound weak, but rather than make myself happy and wear the silly hat and say, 'Oh, I don't care,' I actually really don't feel like getting made fun of. So I put on something boring and navy and go out and try to disappear.

My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.

Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.

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.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

On one play, I remember hitting him out of bounds, grabbing his throat and squeezing it like it was Silly Putty, ... 'You cheap shot artist!' Brunell screamed at me. 'You're going down, Brunell! I looked at your friggin' face every day for a friggin' year! I've waited all year for this!'

No country in the world can draft their constitution in three months. They themselves took 10 years. Why do they wish to impose a silly constitution on us?

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

One night this guy actually said to me, "Your legs must be tired, because you've been running through my mind all night." It was so silly I didn't even get it. With lines like that, you might as well just stay at home.