(420 quotes found)
“"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“My revenue is the silly cheat”
William Shakespeare
“The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.”
Sid Vicious
“Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.”
Julia Child
“Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“[And his leading lady echoes that observation.] American men don't want to do comedy that makes them look silly or less masculine, ... But he has no fear. He throws himself into things. In fact, he threw himself out of a second-story window one day. He had the stunt me put down mats so everyone would laugh hysterically.”
Reese Witherspoon
“It isn't a silly smile or a smirk, but a sense of optimism that I was trying to convey with the expression.”
Jamie Franki
“We've been playing very nicely, even though we bowled very badly at the death and did some silly things with the bat in Cape Town.”
Gordon Parsons
“Iran has made a dangerous and silly decision of confronting not just the U.S. government but the entire international community.”
Senator John Kerry
“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?”
William Law
