One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.
I don't think American family sitcoms are mean. I guess I really love 'Arrested Development. ' I guess they are quite mean in that, but that is also a very silly, surreal, absurd show as well, and it has got a heart as well.
It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. " The Old Man and the Sea
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics. ' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it. So, I don't go out there [thinking], "Oh, I want to make this as silly as possible. " In fact, sometimes I get the most enjoyment out of a sketch that plays very real - and it's so real that it's just funny.
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!
I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lies in the willingness for people to work hard.
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?
Skype seems the best maybe, as international phone rates are silly. And service is service, that's definitely true. Any time there are two people involved, one of them becomes a server.
When I am talking to people from Germany, we should know that there are certain things and certain histories that are very important for people. If you look at all the Muslims living in the West, they didn't react in a violent way. They don't like what they saw but they are citizens like you and me and they look at it and say: "This is a silly video but we are not going to react. "
Don't move your money from Bear! That's just being silly! Don't be silly!
Unbelievable how silly this Formula 1 is these days, with this stupid overtakes.
My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
Oh dear," said Sarah anxiously, "I do wish he wouldn't do these silly things. " I'm sure we all wish that, Sarah," said Marcia sternly. "But unfortunately he has progressed rather further than the silly stage. Evil-minded-scheming stage is more what I would call it.
To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly.
I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.
Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.