Quotes of: Being-silly Keyword

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

Jill Scott

It's not always easy being a full-time feminist - especially as a young woman - when you're constantly being told that what you do is irrelevant. I'm on the defense all the time.

Jessica Valenti

It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting every...

Paddy Considine

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

A. S. Byatt

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of...

Art Garfunkel

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

The Farmer: I always thought that being alone was just something that a man had to put up with. It was like I just got used to it.

Days of Heaven

John Merrick: I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!

The Elephant Man

Simon Bishop: Lucky for you... you're here for rock-bottom. You absolute horror of a human being.

As Good as It Gets

Lesra: [observing the prison] This is some place. Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: This is no place, not for a human being or anybody. Never get used to a place like this.

The Hurricane

Old Lodge Skins: There is an endless supply of white men. There has always been a limited number of human beings.

Little Big Man

Old Lodge Skins: It makes my heart sad, a world without human beings has no center to it.

Little Big Man

Tony Hoyt: What the fuck is your problem, Taylor? She's a fucking dink! Chris Taylor: She's a fucking human being, man! Fuck you!

Platoon

Sam: Oh my God! They're playing good music. Patrick: Holy shit. Holy shit. They are, they're playing good music!

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Charlie: Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written in a while, but I've been trying hard not to be a loser.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Charlie: Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Linebacker: Hey, Nothing! Nose Tackle: Hey, Nothing! Patrick: Let it go! Jesus! It's an antique joke. It's over!

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Patrick: You know, I used to be popular before Sam got me some good music.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Patrick: This is Charlie's first party ever. So I expect nice, meaningful, heartfelt blow jobs, from both of you.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Blanche DuBois: Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?

A Streetcar Named Desire

Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened...

Ann McLane Kuster