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Quotes About Silly

He wasn't so frightening, for a Voidbringer. He must have been like … the Voidbringer all the other ones made fun of for wearing silly hats. The one that would correct all the others, and explain which fork they had to use when they sat down to consume human souls.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Anyone can blow their face off by accident—I mean, who hasn't—but if you do it twice in a row, you look really silly.
~ Brandon Sanderson
It's very silly," she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it.
~ Henry James
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.
~ Dick Smothers
I grew up thinking I was going to change the world, but not because I was treated like a special snowflake. It's a silly label. People are starving. We need to feed them. That's the end of the conversation.
~ Rupi Kaur
It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works.
~ Elliott Erwitt
Remember, you are as dispensable as the most indispensable king of kings, the mighty lord of silly worldly men.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Top Gear' is for the whole family, regardless of gender, sitting down together to enjoy some slightly silly escapism.
~ Chris Harris
I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.
~ Billy Dee Williams
The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or silly, might occur.
~ Michio Kaku
This whole speech, extremely silly, tactless and probably politically dangerous, made Pavel Iosifovich shake with rage, but, strange as it might seem, it could be seen from the eyes of the crowd of customers that had gathered that it had aroused sympathy in very many people!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.
~ Paul Dano
Love is a grin, a look in the eye whispering what are we doing, appearing in silly arguments had for the sake of them.
~ Craig Stone
These shoes are Mr Silly's shoes, Scott.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
Don't be silly, my dear. Threats are only meaningful if you have the power to execute them. And you, my dear, do not.
~ Candace Bushnell
I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.
~ Candy Darling
Walter Plinge said: You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer! Oh, yes, said Nanny. About houses on fire, I expect... Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire! I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum, said Nanny. No! My mum would take herself! What would you take out then, Walter? Nanny said. The fire!
~ Terry Pratchett
The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things
~ Terry Pratchett
Ridcully sighed. 'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's playing silly buggers?' The other senior wizards stared at him. 'I, I, I don't think we can play it any more,' said the Bursar, who at the moment was only occasionally bouncing off the sides of sanity, 'I, I, I think we lost some of the pieces...
~ Terry Pratchett
I don't care that I'm taking a chance. I don't care that I may get my heart broken. If I don't at least give this a chance, I'll never be able to live with myself. I love this. I love this because it's funny. I love this because it's silly. I love him, I love him, I love him! And just like that...my heart goes boom.
~ Karyn Bosnak
My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.
~ Katharine Hepburn
A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid meeting the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Perhaps more important, it also showed that you could get away with being a little dangerous, provocative, or just plain deep if you did it with a smile on your face and remembered that entertainment always came first. When done right, it's possible to be silly and subversive at the same time.
~ Brian Jay Jones
It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I'm thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it's hilariously silly.
~ Julie Brown