Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I don't think Koizumi is serious about reforms.

Buddy Bell

I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful.

Chris Connelly

Before you were a movie star, you were a serious actor.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I've got a serious-looking head.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

There are some pretty serious felonies on the list,

We do not view this as anything more serious than a much-needed correction.

This colt's got some serious gears. He's really fast. He's the quickest Cal-bred I've ever trained.

With that said, we have some serious infrastructure needs.

Shelden Williams

It wasn't serious basketball. We just put on a show for the fans.

George McGovern

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Steven Moffat

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

Heinrich Boll

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Tom Jones

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

Toni Morrison

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

Noam Chomsky

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

John Scott

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

Philip Roth

I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.

Henrik Ibsen

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

Harvey Korman

Funny is when you're serious.

Maya Angelou

You're not serious; you're boring as hell.

Plautus

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

Paul Weller

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

Os Guinness

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

Eric Hoffer

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

Helen Clark

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Helen Fielding

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.