In real life, I can't be earnest, I can't have a serious conversation. I will fob everything off on jokes and humour. — CMAT Copy Share Image
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I like to smoke, and when you smoke, things become less serious and you find the funny in things. So, even movies… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that… — Tia Mowry Copy Share Image
It's a dangerous sport, you can get really hurt. God helped me, protected me so I wouldn't have any damage, any serious… — Wanderlei Silva Copy Share Image
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in… — James Meade Copy Share Image
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life.… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
A lot of action characters are a little bit too serious as well. They take themselves a bit too seriously, which I… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,… — George R. R. Martin 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
At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics. — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
I would love to direct. Hopefully, I could probably direct an episode of 'Grown-ish,' but I have to show them that I'm… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I didn't know I wanted to be actor when I was four.I did it at the beginning because my brother did it… — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up. — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person. — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I take my breaks; say no to a lot of serious movie offers because I either don't like the roles or the… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did… — Amanda Bynes Copy Share Image
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. — Anonymous Copy Share Image