Silly Thinking Quotes

#1. ... Oh dear, I sometimes think ... whatever would I do if anything happened ... But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking ... !

Katherine Mansfield

#2. I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

Mila Kunis

#3. I dreamed of being able to share my thoughts and feelings and hopes without thinking they were going to make fun of me and think I was silly, and I have that.

Rebecca St. James

#4. There is silly are people. You must suffer, or cause others to suffer, before you will have respect of one kind or the other from them ... I will not stand to be looked at by anybody, especially when the looking is done with wrong thinking.

Richard Llewellyn

#5. Being wild can be wearing a silly hat. Being wild can be dancing weird. Being wild can be shooting people. What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild.

Juliette Lewis

#6. Some are so Foolish as to interrupt and anticipate those that speak, instead of hearing and thinking before they answer; which is uncivil as well as silly.

Various

#7. I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.

Naomi Judd

#8. Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.

Katherine Paterson

#9. I don't think people are too interested in my naked selfie in my bathroom while I'm shaving my legs. It wouldn't even occur to me to even post something that silly.

Nicole Ari Parker

#10. It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

Julianna Margulies

#11. I did wonder what happened when we died, though, and I'd wondered about it for most of my life. Thinking that nothing happened, that there was absolutely nothing following all of this pain, seemed just as silly as magic. No, there had to be something.

David Joy

#12. And I love being with you. Your giggle, your silly grin, how you apply you personality in paste. The ambitions that I share. The way of thinking that I understand. The unconventional person, you are. You are the odd-shaped jigsaw puzzle that I'm looking to fit. And you completed me

Raditya Dika

#13. When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.

Frederick Lenz

#14. To think the needle is going to protect you is as silly as thinking that drugs will make you healthy.

Andrew Saul

#15. I think I was unprepared for war.

George W. Bush

#16. Silly me, here I was thinking we needed big neon signs that said Here We Are, Shoot Us Please on top of the roof.

Julie Kagawa

#17. I think it's very important for the American president to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly as I can.

George W. Bush

#18. I think the thing about relationships is that you're always thinking "Oh, it's going to go bad". But then, it's the same thing that all the silly magazines say, "Take time for yourselves. Go away."

Julianne Moore

#19. Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

Sergio Aragones

#20. You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#21. Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.

Ralph Marston

#22. My mantra is always, "Take a nap first, Matt! Then think." It's silly, but it works.

Matthew Moy

#23. I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.

Steven Conrad

#24. I know this perfectly well, but it was precisely this that I liked - her thinking me silly. Such a peculiar vice: to be secretly pleased to be allowed to observe that one is being slightly robbed.

Robert Walser

#25. If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill

Debalina Haldar

#27. I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

Donald Rumsfeld

#28. As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

Abraham Lincoln

#29. Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. Even if it means having to be a little silly or cheeky, I think it is worth it.

Sarah Kay

#30. Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

Koushun Takami

#31. This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.

Leonard Ravenhill

#32. I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.

Aaron Rodgers

#33. I think he's the best quarterback in this game

Andre Johnson

#34. I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

David Beckham

#35. Well, this should be easy, then." Puck smirked. "We'll just stroll in the front door, waltz up to Virus, grab the scepter, have some tea and save the world before breakfast. Silly me, thinking it would be hard.

Julie Kagawa

#36. One final silly face.
One blessed responding laugh.
Fezzik closed his eyes then, thinking only this: thank God I was a giant after all....

William Goldman

#37. It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

Steve Case

#38. If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead."
"Dead?" said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.

Diana Wynne Jones

#39. I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.

Michele Bachmann

#40. Just picked up a black pair of scissors thinking they were my glasses.
That definitely would't have enhanced my eyesight.

Phil Lester

#41. There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.

Norman Finkelstein

#42. Most people turn things like elections into a fetish and think it's the only way to go: if we just keep giving people the vote, that'll solve all our problems. In the end, that's just a silly, infantile notion.

Pankaj Mishra

#43. He came for a moment perilously close to believing that he could fly, but a quick-thinking error-checking protocol cut in and told him not to be so silly. It

Douglas Adams

#44. With fashion, my mother was an icon, but she never lived it in the sense that she was never obsessed with fashion. When I was a young girl, my sister wasn't doing fashion, so I started fashion thinking, 'I'm going to do something that they haven't done yet.' That was my silly scheme at the time.

Lou Doillon

#45. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

Richard Mitchell

#46. I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

Bernard Manning

#47. I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.

Christopher Hitchens

#48. I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

Crystal Woods

#49. Puck's eyes gleamed, feral and menacing. Oh, I don't know, princess. Maybe it was because I was stupid enough to care about you. Maybe I actually thought I had a chance. Silly me, thinking that one little kiss meant anything to you.

Julie Kagawa

#50. Most people are almost blind and they don't see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren't connected and are silly, like, I'm worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.

Mark Haddon

#51. I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

Daniel Handler

#52. Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

Erik Naggum

#53. Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

Naomi Watts

#54. Silly me, thinking you actually had potential. I thought, Finally, she's realized she's a vampire. Now we're getting somewhere. But now you're just a big fluffy bunny with sharp teeth.

Julie Kagawa

#55. Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

#56. As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.

E.W. Jackson

#57. Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Jane Austen

#58. There's moments when I think it's kind of silly and I wish I would've just stayed natural

Carmen Electra

#59. Atheists think the devil is just a silly as God is.

Hemant Mehta

#60. I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don't ever have to be responsible for your own behavior.

Harlan Ellison

#61. Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

C.S. Lewis

#62. Well, I was thinking. Why do I have to be a tinker? Just because some silly hammer glowed? I mean, whose to say it wasn't just some big mistake? Maybe I can just switch my talent!

Tink

#63. I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#64. I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things.

Mona Sahlin

#65. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

George Bird Evans

#66. I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"

Aziz Ansari

#67. I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."

Drew Barrymore

#68. It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.

Bill Smith

#69. It's weird that apples bruise like humans. I'm glad they don't scream when you bite into them.

Phil Lester

#70. I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.

Wolfman Jack