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Quotes About Silliness

Don't be silly and don't waste your time.
~ Bob Newhart
I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
~ Mark Twain
reason. Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!" "You see!" said Athelney Jones, reappearing down the steps
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There had never been a shortage of fools in the world
~ Stephen King
There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.
~ George Burns
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
~ Horace
If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.
~ Eric San
I'm a little bit sillier than past Cinderellas... at least, I am so far. But it's only the second day into rehearsal!
~ Keke Palmer
It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.
~ Gillian Flynn
There is nothing so unreasonable and irrational and blind—and just plain silly-looking—as a man who works himself into an obsessive passion.
~ Glen Cook
Religion is just a long competition to see who can design the silliest hat.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The bedroom is an archetype. To me it stands for a lot of the silliness of our modern culture where the kind of things that we worship in our sacred spaces are based on media and movies because we don't really have much else in the way of myths, if that makes sense.
~ Weyes Blood
Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
I play 'Just Dance' all the time - actually my girlfriends and I have slumber parties where we actually do this on a monthly basis and make total fools of ourselves.
~ Brittany Snow
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.
~ Sergio Aragones
Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.
~ Shel Silverstein
From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
~ Jane Austen
Over days and weeks and months, he helped me feel that I was part of humanity, and not with his kindness alone; it was his silliness, his humor, his dirtiness that rekindled my spirit.
~ Mary Gaitskill
Being dead is absurd. It's the silliest situation you'll find yourself in. Your limbs are floppy and uncooperative. Your mouth hangs open. Being dead is unsightly and stinky and embarrassing, and there's not a damn thing to be done about it.
~ Mary Roach
stewie pewie tomatoes. And also sometimes
~ Barbara Park
That ain't Chanel Number Five I smell comin from the direction of your butt, is it?
~ Stephen King
I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.
~ Jennifer Grant
Love is someone you can be silly with
~ Cecil Beaton