Quotes About Silly

He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

You cannot keep away yourself from the shameless, impudent, and silly one until you close all links in an open way.

People know I like to laugh and have a good time. Even when I'm sassy, it's still kind of stupid-silly.

When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

Don't be silly," he said uncertainly. "Now, what's your problem? If you think you're broke, I'm broker, ask my broker.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

There was a look of consternation in them, of incredulity and something more - what was it? Yes, Gerald had looked that way the day his pet hunter had broken his leg and he had had to shoot him. Why did she have to think of that now? Such a silly thought. And why did Ashley look so oddly and say nothing?

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).

stupid laws, that's why.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but I damn know well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, I wonder. I get back off into Baldwin. I don't give a damn if Sag Harbor sags into oblivion. Me and James Baldwin are communicating. His fiction is more real than this reality.

I'm a total goofball.

I'm a goofball.

I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh.

I'm mad goofy.

Pickering : You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well. HIGGINS. Yes: that's what drives me mad: the silly people don't know their own silly business.

He is a good creature, and more sensible than any one would imagine," said Dorothea, inconsiderately. "You mean that he appears silly." "No, no," said Dorothea, recollecting herself, and laying her hand on her sister's a moment, "but he does not talk equally well on all subjects." "I should think none but disagreeable people do," said Celia, in her usual purring way.

I've said this before, and I'm sure there are people who disagree, but I feel like one of the reasons there aren't a lot more women in stand-up - and there are many more now; it's not parity, but it's getting there - is that women are not socialized to look stupid or silly. They're socialized to be pretty and precious.

I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you're speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you're speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.

Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.