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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Paul Goodman

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

Pam Grier

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

Paris Hilton

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

Natan Sharansky

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

R. C. Sproul

God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.

R. D. Laing

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

Ken Thompson

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

Oliver Goldsmith

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Larry Wall

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

Patricia Marx

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

Oscar Wilde

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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.

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.

Rupert Murdoch

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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.