Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Anything other than simple cheerfulness, is too serious, too negative, too depressing, and too unrealistic. — Swami Premodaya Copy Share Image
I hate teachers that think they are smart… Can I go to the bathroom...? I don't know can you? Girl I will… — Serenity Karma Copy Share Image
If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a… — George Will Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know… — Irrfan Khan Copy Share Image
The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Let's not underestimate the seriousness of the challenge. We have a deeply divided party. We have a deeply divided country. — Stephen Crabb Copy Share Image
Don't take life too seriously. Sometimes just laugh at your problems, knowing it's not the end of everything. — Anmol Andore Copy Share Image
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the… — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer. — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
“I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
You make jokes because you're afraid to take anything seriously, because if you take things seriously, they matter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most times people don't take your mistakes much more serious as you think. They have other serious issues to focus on. No… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The FCC is a quasi-judicial body. It is supposed to undertake this period of public comment with a degree of seriousness and… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
I think that coming to work every day and what we try and do and accomplish, there's a seriousness to it. — Mike Budenholzer Copy Share Image
I understand why guys dont take a lot of females serious. A lot of girls dont have any self value, morals or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie. — Sam Huntington Copy Share Image
And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just… — Rich Brian Copy Share Image
