(2008 quotes found)
“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.”
Niels Bohr
“An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”
Charles F. Kettering
“A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price”
Rudyard Kipling
“I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.”
Samuel Goldwyn
“Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....”
Oscar Wilde
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
Albert Camus
“Dad, thanks to TV, I can't remember what happened 8 minutes ago. No, really, it's a serious problem. Ha, ha, ha! What're we laughing about?”
Nancy Cartwright
“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.”
Clarence Darrow
“A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
Ernest Hemingway
