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Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious. — Kevin Barry

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is a place to have joy and fun, so why be serious? — Debasish Mridha

Life is much too serious to be taken seriously. — Vicki Lawrence

She has no serious ideals at all-her sole aspiration seems to be to have a good time. — L.M. Montgomery

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers. — Joan Rivers

I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the polar opposite to who I am. — Colin O'Donoghue

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be. — Eckhart Tolle

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, ... let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second. — Noam Chomsky

If all those Ph.D.'s were wrong, the country would be in very serious trouble. — Anonymous

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. — Leigh Hunt

Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation. — Robert M. Pirsig

took something serious away from it. I told myself I would never get so deep into my cups that I wouldn't be able to play. — Duff McKagan

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist. — Leymah Gbowee

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be. — Jodi Picoult

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. — Michel De Montaigne

The life is an adventure. Is exciting and terrifying. From time to time can be a little bored but should never be serious. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. — Nicholas Butler

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour. — Yahoo Serious

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion. — Jeanloup Sieff

And mind you don't talk about anything serious. Nothing is serious nowadays. At least nothing should be. — Oscar Wilde

Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

always was and would be a serious soul in search of serious ideas to be serious about. Nina — Amor Towles

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson. — Theophilus London

We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie. — Kami Garcia

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. — Criss Jami

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist. — David LaChapelle

Your eyes may mislead you sometimes. So don't be serious in observing, listen to your heart at times when you are confused. — Giridhar Alwar

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. — Thorstein Veblen

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. — Plato

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. — Ovid

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all. — Anton Chekhov

I announced to my mother one day when I was 8 that I wanted to be a serious actress. — Meredith Salenger

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life. — Anita Moorjani

Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious. — Judah Friedlander

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that. — Bernie Sanders

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun. — Ruby Wax

The secret of life is to see everything with a non-serious eye, but to be absolutely involved. It's like a game. — Sadghuru

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means. — Harold Holzer

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation. — Maureen Johnson

When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture. — Neale Donald Walsch

You cannot be serious! — John McEnroe

My father who was always serious has fallen in love with a dog. What can I do but be happy for him? — Michael Simms

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer. — Delta Goodrem

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. — John Terraine

Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck. — Kim Harrison

You can't be serious," I said.
"Not on a regular basis, no. — Leigh Bardugo

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates — Jean-Claude Juncker

If life is a joyful serious journey, then peace should be the train and happiness should be the destination. — Debasish Mridha

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam. — Joel Garreau

There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death. — Alexandre Dumas

It is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world. — Mary Oliver

I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious. — Brian Andreas

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older. — Leila Josefowicz

It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir," replied Porthos ... "and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face. — Alexandre Dumas

an arsenal of serious tools that needed to be sworn at to work properly. — C. Bard Cole

To be diligent means to be serious and devoted to the work of God — Sunday Adelaja

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

The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs. — Ryoji Noyori

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. — George Bernard Shaw

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. — Betsy Lerner

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle. — Carson Kressley

It takes two to be serious — E. E. Cummings

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. — Teresa Of Avila

To remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn't have to be so serious all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!' — Queen Latifah

I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation. — William Walker

no serious book can now be sure of surviving. — Sigmund Freud

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess

In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious. — Frederick Lenz

I suppose one must be serious sometimes. — Oscar Wilde

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be. — Cheryl Hines

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. — Charles Kennedy

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway. — Jose Gonzalez

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now. — Shunryu Suzuki

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth. — John Osborne

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious. — Calvin Trillin

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner ... a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn. — Rosemary Sutcliff

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown. — Martin Luther

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals — Georges Clemenceau

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life. — Leo Buscaglia

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers. — Michael Sheen

To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention. — Lionel Shriver

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. — P.G. Wodehouse

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious. — Faith Prince

I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious. — Halston Sage

I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics. — Yahoo Serious

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. — Joseph Wood Krutch

I am still of [the] opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood
sex and the dead. — W.B.Yeats

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters. — Jim Gaffigan

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering. — Jeremy Corbyn

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have. — Nicholas Sparks

They but appear a solemn People, - worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly. — Thomas Pynchon

To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable. — Eric Partridge