Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emeril Lagasse

In the restaurant it's much more serious.

Ellen Ochoa

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Lily Tomlin

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

Lin Yutang

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

Sean O'Casey

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

Queen Latifah

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

Henry Adams

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

Manny Montana

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

Nancy Thayer

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Milan Kundera

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Jonny Lang

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Joni Mitchell

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

Johnny Depp

I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.

Syd Barrett

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

Matthew Henry

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

Jon Pertwee

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Joyce Carol Oates

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Paolo Sorrentino

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

Paul McCartney

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

John McEnroe

You cannot be serious!

John Irving

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

John Hodgman

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Joseph O'Neill

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

John Kasich

These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia].

John Kasich

It's a very serious matter. And what should we do about it? We should reinforce NATO. We need to be prepared to take solid actions to make it clear that we will not tolerate any intervention, and Russian intervention.

Livy

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Louise Rennison

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

Magic Johnson

Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

Gustave Flaubert

What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.

John Mayer

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

Elliott Erwitt

I am serious about not being serious

Elliott Erwitt

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

Mao Zedong

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.