Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Neil Diamond

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

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.

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.

Philip Roth

I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.

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.

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.

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.

Johnny Depp

I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.

Henry Adams

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

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.

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.

This is not a joke. We are very serious about doing this for the City.

This is not what we wanted, and we have serious concerns.

Nicole Williams

This is serious business. Just take the time to do this.

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.

Sarah Silverman

Sometimes I am screwing around, and sometimes I get way too serious, but I am a pretty sincere person.

Richelle Mead

That's pretty weird—and when I say something's weird, you know it's serious.

Russell Baker

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

Robert Anton Wilson

We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

Robert Schwentke

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

William Stafford

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

Wislawa Szymborska

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.