Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Chris Connelly

Before you were a movie star, you were a serious actor.

I don't think Koizumi is serious about reforms.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Jeannette Walls

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Jeff Cooper

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

Neil Diamond

I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.

John Scott

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

Sherman Alexie

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

Scott Harshbarger

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

Rajneesh

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

Matthew Henry

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

Maya Angelou

You're not serious; you're boring as hell.

Plautus

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

Paul Weller

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

Niels Bohr

Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

Niels Bohr

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Michel de Montaigne

Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?

Mason Cooley

Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

Michel Gondry

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.

Noam Chomsky

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Molly Ivins

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

James Dolan

Everybody's gossiping about it, but no one sounds serious about buying.

It's time for us to get serious about it.

Peter Hain

It's very serious and I don't want to speculate on who was responsible,

Shelden Williams

It wasn't serious basketball. We just put on a show for the fans.

This is very serious and it is uncorroborated we are very concerned.

This is the most serious incident, the way we see it, during the 3-1/2-year ceasefire.

This is a very serious thing. This is not a child's playground.

This is a very serious situation. It's an aberration, but it's a serious situation.

This is a very serious situation, and getting worse.