Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Mayer

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

Queen Latifah

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

Richelle Mead

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

Robert Anton Wilson

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

Rupert Murdoch

If [Boris Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

Steve Miller

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

Vijay Mallya

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

Robert Schwentke

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.

Tom Ford

I'm a very serious person.

Toni Braxton

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire

Steven Moffat

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.

Russell Baker

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

Rose Byrne

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

T. S. Eliot

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

Susan Sontag

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Vladimir Lenin

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Werner Herzog

Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.

Salvador Dali

Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?

William Stafford

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

Sarah Silverman

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

Wislawa Szymborska

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

Wiz Khalifa

I like to smoke, and when you smoke, things become less serious and you find the funny in things. So, even movies that aren't funny, they end up turning into comedies to me.

Zach Braff

It raises several serious questions. For example, how can there possibly be more than one person as awesome as me?

Willie Nelson

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.