Quotes of: Being-silly Keyword

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

Norman Rockwell

Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter how carefully we tidy up for guests we always seem to miss the note card that says, "Margaret has to die soon." ...

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

The reason why I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly. I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the...

The Bell Jar

Grand Mage,” Ghastly said, as he put the map away, “did you know the sparrow flies south for the winter?” “What an odd thing to say,” Ravel said, and as he turned, he snapped his palm against the air and Paloma slammed into the wall.” …...

Kingdom of the Wicked

I love those dark moments in Peanuts. I love that they're in there, that Charles Schulz put the sad lonely bits of himself into the comic. I love the silliness too, the dancing Snoopy strips. The little boy Rerun drawing "basement" comics about Tarza...

We all got it coming

I never aspired to be the PM...Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh

The Edge of Power

Oh don’t be such a fuss pot,” said the fairy, “or I’ll call you Fussy Pants, instead of Silly Pants!

Finding Manda's Sunshine

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

Burnt Offerings

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Janet Jackson

I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like tha...

Rose Leslie

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

Emilio Estevez

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

All Things Considered

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

Memoirs of a Geisha

Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

A Light in the Attic

I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

Speak

I want to see the sunrise with you. I want to watch the sunset. I want to make out during a movie. Silly, huh?

Sin at Sea

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

The Setting Sun

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

Joe Wurzelbacher

I'm not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly. But I think it's really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out of the sky with some kind of an end-times theory.

Kirk Cameron

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes