“I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.” SaidNaturalSeriousHolyAngelInnocentIceSensitiveNervesMaryVirginsCubesVirgin Mary Author:Sister Souljah
“It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".” MaySaidPastScienceCenturySeriousErrorsProfessorsHistorian18th Century Author:D. V. Ager
“I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of locked into "Oh no, he's a serious actor." Well, I was a serious actor for nine years or 10 years and then I get into comedy and everybody said, "Oh no, he's funny. He can do comedy," and then all of a sudden, you're just a comedy guy.” YearsWellsSaidHappensGuyActorsCan DoComedySeriousTvsNineLockedNine Years Author:Barry Bostwick
“Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.” WorldSaidSeriousCrisisCongressChanging The WorldDesperatePotMandates Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensSaidWholeMightGuyFeltNumbersSeriousSpendingWhole LifeAwfulThirtyDriversMight Have BeenYankeesThirty YearsNew York YankeesCabCab Drivers Author:Joe DiMaggio
“Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.” YearsSaidFactsPainLeftCausesSportsFiguresSeriousSolutionsTherapyInjuryFrustrationObscureProceduresSurgeonsSpineHindsightBack Pain Author:Jerome Groopman
“A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.” MenSaidDoneFunnyRememberPoorTroubleSeriousCreaturesSerious Man Author:Thomas Carlyle
“They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen.” IfsThinkingKnowsMeanLongMadeSaidDoneHappensFunSeriousLong TimeThey SaidSantaLong Time AgoSequelsBad Santa Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.” WellsSaidPracticeDoubtAliveMovementSeriousIdealsAgreeIdeologyPropositionsComponentsOngoingZionistFragmented Author:Theodore Bikel