Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
It took four days from discovering I had cancer to finding out how serious the problem was. — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it. — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization,… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes… — Quvenzhane Wallis Copy Share Image
Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war. — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal… — Viktor Orban Copy Share Image
Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then,… — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There… — Elisabeth Guigou Copy Share Image