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Quotes About Silliness

Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
~ Jane Austen
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.
~ Michael Hastings
I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.
~ Thomas Sadoski
The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?
~ Larry Wilmore
My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
~ Tim Heidecker
it's hard to march purposefully, or in any other way, when your thighs are screaming like Richard Simmons in a candy store- good God, stop the madness.
~ P.C. Cast
No soy una enamorada, soy una tonta
~ Daniel Handler
The playwright Rose Franken said, "Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~ Chris Bell
AidanIsAPoopyHead.
~ Chris Grabenstein
I believe it would be right for common sense to revolt against the extreme claims made today on behalf of "intellectual property." What the law demands today is increasingly as silly as a sheriff arresting an airplane for trespass. But the consequences of this silliness will be much more profound.
~ lessig lawrence
Comedy chose me. I always had this urge to be silly that I couldn't control. I remember my father having me read 'The Three Little Pigs' to him, and I would improv all around the story, like when one pig's house got blown over, he put on his gym shoes and took off.
~ Craig Robinson
Like people get really stressed about the Baby Bjorn. It seems silly, but they do.
~ Hilaria Baldwin
I want to be silly, and that's being authentic just as much as being open and honest. It's authentic to make weird clown horn noises when it strikes you.
~ Tig Notaro
Clowns taste funny.
~ Unknown
Bob's Nobs.
~ Tony Lewis
you a pie!" Peacemaker chirped, smashing a pile of mud over Hope's talons. "Yum yum yum yum,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
When she had finished, he grimaced impatiently. "That's silly. Mamma's not really dangerous. She's just a case of arrested development. Most of us have outgrown ethics and morals and so on. Mamma's just not grown up to them yet.
~ Dashiell Hammett
bimble beedle bom.
~ Dave Barry
The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the businesslike investor.
~ Unknown
It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
~ William Shakespeare
For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Hier", sagt Vivi und reicht Papierkronen herum. "Wie albern", sage ich und setze meine auf den Kopf. Cardan betrachtet sein Spiegelbild in der Mikrowelle und richtet die Krone so, dass sie schief sitzt.
~ Holly Black
Finally she stopped resisting and called a truce. Young Alice was allowed to stay as long as she didn't eat too much chocolate. Now it seemed like she could twist the lens on her life and see it from two entirely different perspectives. The perspective of her younger self. Her younger, sillier, innocent self. And her older, wiser, more cynical and sensible self. And maybe sometimes Young Alice had a point.
~ Liane Moriarty
My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
~ T. J. Miller