To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.[Diary entry, 1971]

Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things...

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

I don’t think I’ve had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I’ve realised is that you get out what you put in and because of...

And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

We must recognize that we’re all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

If Baltimore’s view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing...

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and ‘Snow White’ videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the...

Life was never meant to be serious, it was meant to be a joy.

I think the serious roles impact people the most.

Even on the most serious ballads, I’ll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds...

I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it’s true, is he’s so dry. When he’s serious, I think he’s joking; when he’s joking, I think he’s serious.

It’s much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

When did you grow a back bone?” Cassius stopped pacing and actually smiled a little.Kendall wasn’t appeased “I borrowed Jory’s

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you’re right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

I look more Indian when I’m serious.

Life’s too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.

Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.

Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.

Just because you know it [my past]… doesn’t mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san

Some say you have only one shot in life, well if you get ammo, you can reload.

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like ‘you want to do this again’?

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that’s supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

Don’t put the hat in hate and then wear it around with pride. Wear your love like socks for gloves, and let the world know you’re serious.

I wouldn’t, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I’d learnt that when you’re in the serious situations, you’ve got to try to stay calm. Because that’s the way you get out of them.

When what one does, reps, or ‘spits’, repetitively, is foul or beastly – one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature’s law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game,...

It’s so funny, because right now I’m very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I’m probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

Ever since the ’70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

I’m not involved in light, frivolous matters. I’m not involved in fringe or side issues. I’m involved in serious issues.

First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.