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Silly Quotes - Page 21

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.94, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

"Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak" by Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. October 19, 2009.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

I've been called over the top. How silly. If you don't go over the top, you can't see what's on the other side.

"The Bat Out of Hell: What Songwriter Combines Hannibal Lecter and Peter Pan?". Interview with Jonathan Karp, www.jimsteinman.com. January 26, 1997.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

"Song: "Oh Comely" ("In the Aeroplane Over the Sea")". February 10, 1998.