Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

Oscar Wilde

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

Noam Chomsky

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

Michel de Montaigne

Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?

George McGovern

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

Nancy Thayer

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Milan Kundera

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Jonny Lang

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Joni Mitchell

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

Emeril Lagasse

In the restaurant it's much more serious.

Ellen Ochoa

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Henrik Ibsen

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Heinrich Boll

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Helen Clark

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Helen Fielding

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

Os Guinness

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

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.

Manny Montana

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

Harvey Korman

Funny is when you're serious.

John McEnroe

You cannot be serious!

John Irving

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

John Hodgman

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

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.

Ray Bradbury

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

Eric Hoffer

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.