Being larger than life, or being projected as such in the music business, leads you to question yourself. Some people try to… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I'm very, very serious about what I do. I think there are a lot of people out there sort of thinking it's… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I understand pain very well, so I look for that in a role. If the characters are well-written, don't tell nobody, but… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Somebody who opposes Trump is wound so tight, they're not funny people anyway, that they don't get his humor. They really believe… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Gender, race, ethnicity – these are all morally neutral. But homosexuality is – involves voluntary sexual conduct with serious public health, social,… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
I think we can compete with high-wage countries, and I believe we should. New jobs and clean energy, not only to fight… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
You have to go in there and hit him. Show him that his tactics don't work. Bernard Hopkins is a fighter that… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I… — Bill Bellamy Copy Share Image
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
Alexia blinked stupidly at the Beta from around the earl’s upper arm. Her heart was doing crazy things, and she still could… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person.… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
There is more to American politics than fat cats and their political friends. There are serious-minded liberals who fight the good fight… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image