When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
It upsets me where you do a take and people go 'that's so funny,' and you think 'I was being serious.' — Tom Bateman Copy Share Image
I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
I like to laugh. I like to have a good time. I don't like to be so serious about things, so I… — Kate Upton Copy Share Image
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda. — Charles E. Bohlen Copy Share Image
The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control. — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was… — Cleo Moore Copy Share Image
I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly. — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he… — Elizabeth Pena Copy Share Image
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious… — Phoebe Tonkin Copy Share Image
Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh. — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier - and for me. — Art Bell Copy Share Image
I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a… — Jeanloup Sieff Copy Share Image
There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
