In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity… — Nick Stahl Copy Share Image
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
“Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why?… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There are moments of levity. I feel like any great drama has moments of levity, or else it just becomes too hard… — Brandon Jay McLaren Copy Share Image
I hope I can now use my ability to communicate, without being too precious or serious. It's good to have some levity,… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
