Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Adams

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

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.

Johnny Depp

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

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.

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.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Mao Zedong

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

John Mayer

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

Elliott Erwitt

I am serious about not being serious

Elliott Erwitt

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

John Kasich

These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia].

John Kasich

It's a very serious matter. And what should we do about it? We should reinforce NATO. We need to be prepared to take solid actions to make it clear that we will not tolerate any intervention, and Russian intervention.

Livy

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Louise Rennison

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

Magic Johnson

Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

Joseph O'Neill

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

Kami Garcia

We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.

Gustave Flaubert

What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.

Jon Pertwee

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Joyce Carol Oates

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

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.

Rose Byrne

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

Paolo Sorrentino

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

Paul McCartney

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

Robert Schwentke

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

Robert Anton Wilson

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

Rowan Atkinson

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

Robert K. Greenleaf

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee