Quotes About Sillier

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

I think when you're coping with grimness perhaps you do get sillier and more escapist in what you want to see at the theatre.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks. How nonphysicists would scoff if they were able to follow the odd course of developments!

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

The more the problem was analysed the sillier the solutions became

The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weight does a spring, and that the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment. The practice of doing this is the reason erudition makes most men duller and sillier than they are by nature and robs their writings of all effectiveness: they are in Pope's words: For ever reading, never to be read.

I think the fun part with the commercials is that I've been able to show a different side of my personality, relax, and be a little sillier than normal.

The emphasis in 'Notting Hill' was perhaps, I thought, slightly more on the romance than on the comedy. But I think 'Mickey Blue Eyes' is maybe slightly more on the comedy. And the tone on 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' it's a far sillier film.

In my opinion, where comedy sequels tend to go bad is that they get sillier and lighter.

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.

You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you're over all your anxieties.

I]magine that a 25-year-old first-year MBA student is considering merging his future economic interests with those of a 25-year-old day laborer. The MBA student, a non-earner, would find that a "share-for-share" merger of his equity interest in himself with that of the day laborer would enhance his near-term earnings (in a big way!). But what could be sillier for the student than a deal of this kind?

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers—which is even sillier, because that's like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. That's only cowardice.

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.

Indeed, I hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.