Fiona Apple

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

American Musician

Richard Simmons

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

American Celebrity

Michelle Obama

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

American First Lady

Imogen Cunningham

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

American Photographer

H. Jon Benjamin

David Wain's character on 'Bob's Burgers' is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.

American Actor

Hillary Clinton

Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

American Politician

Richard Dawkins

What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

English Scientist

Scott Adams

American Cartoonist

Tara Strong

Canadian Actress

Kenan Thompson

American Comedian

Use 'silly' to describe actions or decisions that are not taken seriously or done playfully.

Lack of seriousness

'Silly' can imply a mild reprimand or disappointment in someone's actions.

Negative connotation

Use 'silly' when something seems illogical or without any clear aim.

Pointless actions

'Silly' often suggests that doing something is impractical or a waste of resources.

Questionable purpose

Use 'silly' to express that something shouldn't be taken too earnestly or excessively serious.

Limited importance

'Silly' can be used affectionately to describe someone being playful or light-hearted.

Informal playfulness

Calling someone a 'silly' is a soft way to criticize their thoughtlessness.

Mild insult

The noun form 'a silly' is often used with a teasing, friendly tone among friends.

Playful tease

'Silly' can describe the physical manifestation of feeling shy or ashamed, as in turning red.

Embarrassment

'Silly' can be used to talk about reactions resulting from shyness, like giggling or blushing.

Shyness

 and we have some neurobiological evidence about how human beings vocalize that suggests there might be two kinds of laughs that we have. So it seems possible that the neurobiology for helpless, involuntary laughter, like my parents lying on the floor screaming about a silly song, might have a different basis to it than some of that more polite

Why we laugh PIPE Sophie...

 and of course, they've got feathers. And of course, they're black and white, that all makes sense, but I just I really love when people have those questions, and even if they might think it's a silly question, it's always such a good thing to ask. So you can, like help everyone learn a little bit more about the natural world around us.

Can Penguins Fly? PIPE...

 And I know you feel it. I know you're all special, but you're still kind of secretly mediocre, don't you think? So anyway, you may say, this puzzle, the mystery of existence, it's just silly mystery-mongering. You're not astonished at the existence of the universe and you're in good company.

Why does the universe...

 because it's so silly, but there's a belief amongst governments that the domestic agenda and the international agenda are incompatible and always will be. This is just nonsense. In my day job, I'm a policy adviser. I've spent the last 15 years or so advising governments around the world,

Which country does the...

 probably has something to do with whichever style you were raised on. Your high school teachers favored it? It's likely you're still using it. Your first editor hated it? You probably do, too. And maybe so much hairsplitting over a tiny squiggle on a page is a bit silly. After all,

Grammar's great divide:...

 so that they may better navigate our misleading reality. While it may seem silly, the disconnect between the world as it appears and the greater truth behind it is one of philosophy's most vexing problems. It's been the subject of thousands of pages by theologians,

Plato’s best (and worst)...

 easy and happen much faster than you expected it but either way it is important and you feel so much better when it's done this explanation for trees are real hit with middle school boys I can tell you that and yes it is certainly silly and perhaps even a

Poetry makes people...

 they're the ones we get asked quite a lot generally um some of them were a little silly uh um no in general i think it's i think it's important that people ask these questions um you know and it's important

Why Do Lemurs Sunbathe?...

 and, of course, my heartbreak; listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth; listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worst version of myself,

The price of shame PIPE...

 in an age of chaos it's easy to dismiss this as just a silly theory and unimportant but the problem is that is a growing movement in America more and more young people seem