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Quotes About Silliness

Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a "fantasy" novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense. Rutabaga.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Tress thought maybe he was like her Aunt Glorf, who had always fought for the best deals at the market. She'd been afraid of looking silly by being taken advantage of. The guess was as wrong as ending a sentence with a preposition. But it worked anyway. Like ending a sentence with a preposition.
~ Brandon Sanderson
J'imagine qu'elle ne vous a pas interdit de laisser entrer d'écureuils dans le batiment ? - D'écureuils, Votre Eminence ? demanda la femme. - Excellent dit Chanteflamme
~ Brandon Sanderson
So?" Kaladin asked her. "What do you think?" "I think you're going to look extremely silly using it. I can't wait.
~ Brandon Sanderson
All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.
~ Brennan Manning
She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.
~ Henry James
'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage ShakyCam style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style.
~ Richard Corliss
If you look at 'Doctor Who,' it's a Time Lord in a blue box who travels around the universe. It's a silly concept, but it's one of the most brilliant, emotional experiences because it's sort of about what is humanity.
~ Margaret Stohl
The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.
~ Milan Kundera
There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.
~ Patricia Wentworth
People are always surprised that I have a funny side because I'm usually so intense, strong and dramatic. But, I'd love to do something really, really silly and funny.
~ Catherine Bell
I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.
~ Chelsea Handler
I am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly.... And that goes for the opposition as well.
~ Calvin Trillin
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
Just a minute, said Lobsang. Who are you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's a schoolteacher walking around? Best kind of person to have, said Susan. We don't like silliness. Anyway, I told you. I've inherited certain talents. Like living outside of time? That's one of them. It's a weird talent for a schoolteacher! Good for marking, though, said Susan calmly.
~ Terry Pratchett
Now we sing dis stupid song! Sing it as we run along! Why we sing dis we don't know! We can't make der words rhyme prop'ly!
~ Terry Pratchett
At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
~ Thom Yorke
She had a hard time making herself let go and they waged a short, silent, silly little battle that he won, which she reluctantly conceded was probably only fair since it was part of his body.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Life is short. Be silly. Have fun. Love the people who treat you right, forget the ones who don't. Regret nothing. Believe everything happens for a purpose… and seek that purpose!
~ Karen Salmansohn
Under slavery, African Americans led desperately constricted and frequently brutal existences. But ordinary life went on as well. For most, the average day was filled with couplings and quarreling, friendship and feuds, moments of silliness, acts of selfishness, and gestures of incredible kindness. They carved out their own worlds as best they could.
~ Gail Collins
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
We've all done this, because we're so mature. You see a cow on the side of the road, stick your head out the window and go "Mooo!" Like we expect the cow to think, "Hey, there's another cow, driving that car! How can he afford that?"
~ Garry Shandling
Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and fearful. It would be just as silly to assert that disbelief in God is a crutch for the immoral and the ill-read.
~ Herman Wouk
If I pass out face down in this water, will you fish me out? Will you promise to call me Your Majesty? Hell no. Then I'll have to think about it.
~ Ilona Andrews