“A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business. — Redfoo Copy Share Image
Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I consider myself a pretty wrestling commentator, but only in the sense that I call it like I see it. It's serious… — Josh Barnett Copy Share Image
Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless… — Dennis Overbye Copy Share Image
“...he could no longer give a thought to anything else. His days passed like hours. At all hours of the day, when… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share Image
For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is,… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to… — Charles Sanders Peirce 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
“Male Amazon river dolphins will even insert thier penises in each other's blowholes in the only known example of nasal sex.* *I… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“One of the study's authors, Dr. Lee Berk, is actually a humor researcher because, when you get right down to it, laughter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image