“I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.” PeopleThinkingKindEconomyPolicyCostTaxesGainsSillyFuelMore MoneyPublic Policy Author:David Neeleman
“We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.” ThinkingYearsLittlesHelpingChristianHoursHalfComedyCoupleThousandRacismEthicsNotionSillyThousand YearsEraseHalf HoursHanging AroundChristian Ethics Author:Norman Lear
“To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly.” SillyEggsBasketsEggs In One Basket Author:John Kasich
“When you look at the New York Times and you pick it up in the morning, at the top of the paper there's three stories that are anti-Trump. Some of them baseless, some of them silly. And at the bottom you get something about WikiLeaks. Same thing with The Washington Post. Way out of control.” WayLooksStoriesThreeMorningNew YorkTrumpPaperPicksBottomSillyPostsNew York TimesWikileaks Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.” ThinkingKnowsMindTelevisionHappeningsSillyGood Work Author:Ewan McGregor
“The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in France, which was all about motorists and seeing if it was worth driving an extra 50 miles for a restaurant. It's a silly thing. Why do you want to help a tire company? You don't owe them nothing.” IfsWorldWayWantHelpingCompanySeeingDrivingMilesSillyFranceExtrasRestaurantsTireEvaluateSilly Things Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and how to react when you're approached by fans after a show or in the airport. It might sound silly, but a lot of those things come into play when you're playing a character.” PlayCharacterShowsMightFatherSoundPsychologyFansTaughtRingsSillyAirports Author:Randy Orton
“I really enjoyed stepping into that side of [princess Margaret] and being silly and naughty and fun.” FunSidesSillyEnjoyedPrincessNaughtyBeing Silly Author:Vanessa Kirby
“I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.” BookSchoolTalkingClassAskingDrawingSillyPainterClasses In School Author:Liza Campbell
“There's a notion of art in this country that you have to be nutty or special or "called" in order to be an artist. I believe the questions everyone should ask themselves are, "Do you want to do it? Are you willing to do it poorly? Are you willing to do the work of doing it? Are you willing to persist when everybody tells you it's silly?" If you're willing to do that, then you can do it.” IfsWantShouldBelieveArtCountryArtistOrderAsksI BelieveCan DoSpecialWillingNotionSillyPersistYou Can Do ItNutty Author:Kate DiCamillo
“House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.” PeopleWayKindReasonHouseCausesAccessSillyAll KindsLoanLiedPeople LieHouse Prices Author:Warren Buffett
“It's like being a stand-up comedian is what leads to being a talk-show host. That life is not cut out for a woman, being on the road at these disgusting hotels. What girls want to do that? Gross guys want to do that. I think that the dearth in female comics is just the nature of the business, but there certainly isn't a dearth anymore, so I think it's just silly.” ThinkingWantShowsLife IsGuyGirlCuttingFemaleSillyComedianHotelHostDisgustingGrossTalk ShowsStand Up Comedian Author:Chelsea Handler
“We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great.” SceneMarkSillyTerrifiedGreat Work Author:Laura Vandervoort
“I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were like, oh, you silly ignorant person who's just come to this world. You clearly shouldn't be at "The Daily Show" 'cause you don't know what you're talking about. And I was like, but I don't know. He seems like he connects with people. I can relate to him as a performer. I can see what tools he's using. He's good at riffing. He's good at taking the crowd on a journey. I can see what he's doing.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsPersonsI CanShowsSeemsRememberGuyCausesTalkingJourneyThis WorldTrumpToolsCrowdsSillyIgnorantRelatePerformersLaughedWowThis GuyDaily ShowIgnorant Person Author:Trevor Noah
“I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always just going to seem a little silly to me.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMatterSeemsCertainValuesValuableSilly Author:Regina Spektor
“There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.” PeopleEnjoyAudienceBritishSillyEnjoyedSatiricalWhimsical Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“With me more than anybody it seems silly having a stage name, and there wasn't any particular difference between me and John Wesley Harding. There wasn't any need to draw that line. I just happened to draw it.” NeedsSeemsNamesDifferencesLinesHappenedStageParticularDrawsSillyHarding Author:John Wesley Harding
“Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.” PeopleKnowsI CanShowsWinningSillyAwardsWasting TimeVery HappyPointlessAward Shows Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative exercise anyway, the whole business of acting, so it just gives you a bit more to feed the imagination. Unless it's really silly, just two of you stuck in a space with nothing but green screen that's got to be pretty difficult.” ThinkingGivingTwoDifferentRealWholeBitsDifficultImaginationSpaceActingExerciseGreenScreensStuckSillyDifferent ThingsImaginative Author:John Hurt
“Being a Pagan without knowing much about Paganism is a bit silly, in the sense that you would probably have been a Pagan had you known more, but you could not really be because you only knew so much about it.” Has BeensBitsKnownKnowingSillyPaganismPagan Author:Varg Vikernes
“You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!” ThinkingCharacterGuyFootballFairsBiggerCastsCornersSillyTeenagerRelaxHidingPretendingThrowingTwilightAround The Corner Author:Anna Kendrick
“He [Donald Trump]wants to build the wall. It would be silly to say we`re going to - we`re going to create an army and we`re going to have Mexico pay for our border patrol, our border police. Clearly, that`s not going to happen.” WantHappensWould BePayWallTrumpArmyPoliceSillyBordersMexicoBeing SillyBorder Patrol Author:John Yarmuth
“He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.” LittlesRightsSatisfactionSillyCivil RightsCommunistSilly Little Author:Jackie Kennedy
“I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.” ThinkingDoneRunningSillySilly Things Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“Everybody would like to be good, that's the silly thing, everybody always likes it when they're having a nice time or when they're happy or when it's sunny, they all dig it; but then they go and forget about it, they never really try to make it nice. They think that it just comes along and it's nice if you're lucky, or if you're unlucky it's bad for you.” IfsThinkingTryingForgetNiceLuckyBe GoodSillyLikesSunnyUnluckySilly ThingsNice Time Author:George Harrison
“I'm currently doing a Soul Pancake show called Top of the Monday, which is basically a good morning news show. It's just me being silly, telling people about good news that's going on in the world, putting them in the mood to start their week.” PeopleWorldSoulShowsMorningWeekNewsMoodSillyGood NewsMondayPancakesBeing Silly Author:Zach Anner
“The left think they've got a monopoly on this silly idea that we are a nation of immigrants, America's greatness is traceable to its immigrants. I'm sorry. I don't buy that as a stand-alone idea anyway because really what they're trying to say with that is that America's greatness is due to America's diversity, and that has not a thing to do with it. American Greatness is because of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and our country.” ThinkingTryingIdeasCountryAmericaLeftNationsGreatnessDiversityConstitutionIndependenceSorryDuesSillyOur CountryThings To DoImmigrantsI'm SorryDeclarationMonopolyDeclaration Of IndependenceStand AloneAmerican Greatness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsHardMomentsRolesLaughingInstinctScarySillyMaking People Laugh Author:Judd Apatow
“I used to enjoy doing silly walks on the street with my friends. Like, you know, you're walking, and then you break out in something completely ridiculous, to kind of spook out the person walking by you. I can't really do that anymore.” KnowsKindPersonsI CanUsedEnjoyWalksBreakStreetsLike YouWalkingMy FriendsRidiculousSillyBreak Out Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.” PeopleDealsWorrySillyMeaninglessSilly Things Author:Alicia Keys
“[The rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio on set was raped by a bear] was as silly as Lady Gaga bumping him or moving his arm out of the way [at the Golden Globes]. People straight be bored.” PeopleWayMovingArmsBearsSillyGoldenBoredGlobesRumorGagaLeonardo Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline.” LooksBigsClearSillySignificantCatholicismDecline1960sSteepWeakening Author:Ross Douthat
“Why can't we talk about sex just to talk about it? Because it's fun and silly and gross and exciting and disturbing and confusing and totally hot, sometimes all at once.” SometimesFunSexExcitingHotSillyConfusingGrossDisturbing Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel
“The Church in the United States turned a corner about three decades ago, and the idea that we're going back to the incoherence of the late Sixties and Seventies is, frankly, silly. Let's have a little faith in what the Holy Spirit has done among us these past 35 years.” YearsLittlesIdeasStatesDonePastSpiritThreeChurchUnitedUnited StatesHolyLateCornersDecadesSillyHoly SpiritSixtySeventiesLittle FaithIncoherenceHave A Little Faith Author:George Weigel
“We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” TurnsSportsTeamStupidBuildingDegreesHumorousAthleteWittySillyDumbNbaTeamworkStupid PeopleTeam BuildingBasketball PlayerTeam WorkSports TeamTeamwTeam WorkingBuilding A TeamNba PlayerFunny SportsFunniest SportsYou Re StupidStupid SportsStupid CelebrityReally DumbStupid FunnyDumb SportsDumbest CelebrityDumb CelebrityFunny TeamworkSilly StupidFunny Team Author:Jason Kidd
“There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American adaptations of Buddhism terribly self-indulgent, silly, gooey in the way the English call "wet."” KnowsWayLittlesSelfBuddhismSillyAppealsWetEasternAdaptationSelf Indulgent Author:Robert Pinsky
“There's no secrets or magic tricks to being successful in life. It's plain and simple. Work harder than everyone else and the only way to do that is to do it. It may sound silly but it's the truth and there aint nothing to it but to do it!” SimpleSecretSuccessfulMagicHard WorkSillyBeing SuccessfulWork Harder Author:Ronnie Coleman
“How can you feel like an actual member of society casting a vote for a president when in a professional interview you said that farts make you laugh? And you're a professional in comedy? But then, have you ever seen a video of a small dog that farts? Welp. I don't need to explain that anymore. If you can't see the humor in that, good luck being a CEO somewhere where I'm not going to understand you. It's a harmless thing to laugh at. It's humor that's not at the expense of someone else. And it's silly. It's juvenile.” PresidentLaughingComedyDogVoteLuckSillyCeoGood LuckFartJuvenile Author:Kyle Kinane
“It seems silly, but it mattered to Gord Downie. I don't know if I necessarily felt like it had to be one or the other, but he really wanted that engagement: "If you think it should be 'the' then tell me why it should be 'the.' " 'Uh, okay, well...' He was really serious.” ThinkingSeriousOkaySilly Author:Steve Berlin
“Anything that I'm doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I had for the Times was about how after decades of battles over public restrooms in New York City, effectively chain stores had become the public restroom of choice for New Yorkers, it's sort of a silly little thing, but coming as an outsider, I was like 'Oh this is actually really interesting.'” ThinkingRealChoicesInterestingPerspectiveBattleSillyLittle ThingsOutsidersReally InterestingRestroomSilly Little Author:Lydia Polgreen
“The quest for stability or homeostasis is silly. We should accept that we live on an incredibly dynamic planet in a rapidly changing environment, and do our best to have the most amazing experiences we can.” AcceptingEnvironmentSillyStabilityMost Amazing Author:Brad Feld
“Making a record's a real fight for me. I'm constantly fighting with this thing inside of me that says I should be sitting in a room with Matthew Shipp or I should have Han Bennink on drums or this song should be playing for the next 20 minutes in my head, not a silly little pop song. It's constant.” RealSongFightingSillyPop SongSilly Little Author:Jason Pierce
“I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindKidsSongListeningJokesSuicideDivorceSillyBlinkUnderdog Author:Mark Hoppus
“I like guys who are cool and laid-back.Someone who works really hard and has goals but who I can be silly with. Looks are not important to me.” ImportantGuyGoalSillyBeing Silly Author:Beyonce Knowles
“We cannot be spun, or at least we'd like to think that we cannot be. And the presidents who are trying to - too overtly to try to say, here is what you historians and what you later Americans should think of my presidency, 30 or 40 years later, they look silly.” ThinkingTryingPresidentSillyHistorianSpun Author:Michael Beschloss
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” ChildrenLittlesCharacterDreamNationsJusticeFourTeachingIdentityColorKingsIntegrityOne DaySpeechDiversityRacismSkinsHuman RightsConservativeEqualitySillyDiscriminationAfrican AmericanHypocrisyBlack PeopleJudgedAmerican DreamDiverseAmerican HistorySentimentalGood CharacterI Had A DreamUnity In DiversityOregonSkin ColorEquality And JusticeBeing EqualHappy ChildrenIntegrity And CharacterIntegrity CharacterEquality Of PeopleEquality For AllI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechAnti RacistKings And LoveBeing JudgedGood KingsSocial EqualityPeaceful ProtestSlave OwnersInjustice And OppressionAnti DiscriminationBlack SkinRacism And PrejudiceDark SkinnedJustice EqualityJudge Of CharacterTolerance And DiversityBrown SkinMarch On WashingtonPolitical EqualityRace And ColorDefects Of CharacterTrue EqualityAfrican RacePreschool Children Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You can't take your stuff with you when you die. That doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy it while you're alive. Why not? But it's all pretty silly. I fall victim to it. I mean, I want nice stuff too. So I guess I'm poking fun at myself as well as other materialistic people.” PeopleMeanFallFunEnjoyNiceVictimSillyMaterialistic Author:Nicole Holofcener
“There are the moments it seems like, if we can take a week every once in a while and do this and make people happy, and it's a way for lots of people to get together and have fun, then it seems pretty silly to not get together and do it.” PeopleMomentsTogetherFunWeekSillyHaving Fun Author:Spencer Moody
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” InspirationalFunnyFunWorstTravelSillyWorst ThingsFunny TravelTouristsGreat TravelTravel ExperienceFunny Journey Book:All Things Considered Source: All Things Considered