“I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways he's solving his problems are never going to work.” ThinkingWayCharacterProblemCertainMy OwnSituationSeriousOutsidersGoing To WorkCraziness Author:Jonathan Coulton
“I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.” I CanSidesMy OwnViewsCareersSeriousCircumstancesMajorsIntellectualCommitmentTraditionBaseballAccidentsBackgroundsFortunateFeaturesMentalityEasternDestinedLifelongCapriciousOdysseyContingencyFamily Tradition Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.” ThinkingMenYearsAmericaSpeakGivenBlackMy OwnResultsFourSeriousExerciseCourtInjusticeJailChicagoFour YearsPeersBehalfInabilityJuryCourt System Author:Bobby Seale
“The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.” FeelsKindSeemsJobsCultureMy OwnAudienceSeriousAngerRidiculousGreat ThingsAll KindsWitnessJournalistReportsBitternessBehaviourPrismsCelebrity CultureAnger And Bitterness Author:Kathy Griffin
“I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.” RealFacesMy OwnLaughingSeeingPositionSeriousEasierRidiculousCertaintyClassicReliefThank GodPieEarnestBananasSlippingMake Me LaughJackiePowHe Makes Me LaughPie In The Face Author:Jeff Bridges
“When I grew older and went my own way, MMA kind of stuck with me. I got to the point where I wanted to make something of it. I always thought fighting was fun, so I joined a gym and took it serious. I never actually thought I would be a real fighter, though. But I began to excel on the local circuit and I did well for myself.” WayWellsKindRealWould BeWantedFightingFunMy OwnSeriousGrewStuckLocalsFighterMmaGymCircuits Author:Brad Tavares
“I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.” WritingSelfMatterSoundVoiceMy OwnRecordsSeriousNo Matter WhatDrivingNutsLoathingSelf Loathing Author:Thom Yorke
“I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.” TryingArtistMy OwnSeriousBeing An Artist Author:David Shrigley
“Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.” IfsHandsActionDifferencesMy OwnSeriousOptimismPlanesMaking A DifferenceCrashPlane Crashes Author:Amanda Ripley
“I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.” SelfMy OwnSeriousAdventureSelf ImprovementRegardProfitImprovementLeisurePrudenceSerious Things Author:Aldo Leopold
“I'm in a new club, by the way. And I don't know if you're first timers like I am, but I'm in the 'I Just Dropped My Cell Phone In My Own Piss' Club. Have you done that? Yeah, good times. I'm on the phone and I forget that I'm using shoulder technique. Urinals were taken so I went in to use the regular john. And as I'm standing there, mid-conversation, I'm like 'Are you serious?' and it just started to toboggan right down my powerful chest.” IfsKnowsWayFirstsDoneUseMy OwnForgetPowerfulTakenSeriousConversationFirst TimeStandingYeahPhonesClubsTechniqueShouldersCellsGood TimesChestsCell PhoneStanding ThereTimer Author:Dane Cook
“There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.” WorldSometimesLightSeemsCultureMy OwnCreativeStreetsSeriousMovedObsessionHeatSuspectsTransformedMetaphysicalIndigenousDisturbedTropicalStreet LifeVibrancyRawnessIndigenous Culture Author:Alex Webb
“I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.” PeopleThinkingWantI CanStatesMy OwnIssuesSeriousDiscussionSerious Issues Author:Bernie Sanders