I wonder why we
I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don’t mind ridicule of our ‘sillinesses’ but of our ‘sobers’. Emily Carr
Silliness
We had no idea
We had no idea what we were getting into. We thought we were just doing this little vampire movie in Portland. There was just a lot of silliness, a lot of hijinks and bad behavior. Elizabeth Reaser
I have never quite
I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely. Eliza Lynn Linton
Men insist that they
Men insist that they don’t mind women succeeding so long as they retain their \”femininity\”. Yet the qualities that men consider \”feminine\” – timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement – are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant. Elizabeth Gould Davis
The Supreme Court said
The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust… Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the … Read more
People will then often
People will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in … Read more
One of the things
One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I’m basically a silly guy. Doug Davidson
I think my cheerfulness
I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward. David Starkey
Describing comic sensibility is
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It’s sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn’t the star. Dana Carvey
Only those who are
Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent. Christopher Isherwood