“Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.” IfsWritingBigsFunnyLiteratureNovelFateSeriousBattleAwardsDoomedAward WinningWinning Awards Author:Neil Gaiman
“If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.” IfsMatterHappensLaughingHavensSeriousBattleHundredHarderSense Of HumorHalfwayHave A Laugh Author:Jack Bruce
“Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.” PeopleGamesSportsPolicySeriousBattleMethodDebateMeaninglessMindlessPolicy Debate Author:Al Gore
“You ever watch a football game and get totally into it? Why? It's not a real battle. It's just a game somebody made up. So how can you take it seriously? Or, you ever see a movie that made your heart about jump out of your chest? Or one that made you cry? Why? It wasn't real. You ever look at a photo of food that made your mouth water? Why? You can't eat the picture. . . . . . Same thing with water towers and God. I don't have to be a believer to be serious about my religion.” LooksHeartMadeRealGamesWaterWatchesCryFootballSeriousBattleMouthsBelieverChestsTowersFootball GameReal You Author:Pete Hautman
“You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199” KnowsHappensCuttingSeriousBattleSerious Things Author:Lewis Carroll
“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.” MenRealOpportunityNationsLosesDifferencesDecisionMistakeWiseSeriousFoolBattleCrucialTrustedSerious Mistakes Book:Clear and Present Danger Source: Clear and Present Danger
“For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.” MenWellsSeemsTodayFirePlanetsSeriousBattlePagesMen And WomenRainIntelligentDialogueNoiseProseEndeavorIntelligent Man Author:John Cheever