“I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.” WorldCultureLiteratureWishNovelSeriousReflectionMereConsumersTokyoSubcultureConsumer CultureSerious Work Author:Kenzaburo Oe
“Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.” MayImportantLife IsWishSexSeriousMadnessBe YouMirthSolemnityNeckties Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.” IfsSeemsTodayArtistWishSeriousSolitude Book:Edgar Degas Source: Edgar Degas
“I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.” PeopleWantWishSadnessFiguresSeriousSorrowDrawingLandscapeMelancholySentimental Book:Van Gogh's Source: Van Gogh's
“[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.” IfsLooksWishAudienceLaughingAdviceCryTearsSeriousJudgingShedCasanova Author:Giacomo Casanova
“Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.” MenTwoSometimesTurnsNextWishHoursWifeDesignSeriousGayHumbleServantAmbitiousMistressTwo DaysMarryingBadgesInfirmityMisersAiryFrugalMutability Author:Pierre Charron
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.” MenReasonEyeRunningSufferingEvilWishChanceGriefSeriousFingersAfflictionIrritation Author:Plutarch
“As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.” LongWishAcceptingFootballSeriousFoolProveClubsUpsetAttractiveInvestorsScandalous Author:Sepp Blatter
“Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.” ThinkingRealDreamWishPerfectCarSeriousRight NowSellsBoringTicketsBangkok Author:Shonda Rhimes
“I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.” PeopleKindWishSeriousRegretCommitPlentySyndromes Author:Sasha Grey
“The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.” IfsPlayOrderWishRolesOne ThingAchieveSeriousComedicRespectability Author:Rowan Atkinson
“When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious.” WishSeriousDrama Author:Alan Ruck
“I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.” PeopleKindWishSeriousFitEvidenceFlyingDispassionate Author:Brian Eno
“Alec Baldwin has done this great Donald Trump. I wish somebody would hire Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions. The only way is to put the two of them out there. it is the most bizarre, pathetic silliness I can imagine at what should be the most serious deliberations in the American government.” DoneWishImagineSeriousBizarrePatheticAmerican GovernmentSilliness Author:Barney Frank
“I wish I could be more serious about painting. I think there may be something going on there and I should pursue it. I'm very old-fashioned - even with the music. I realize, while I have so much respect for the kookiness of people who go for it, who paint with their eyes closed, I am superclassical.” PeopleThinkingEyeWishRealizingPaintingSeriousPaint Author:Lou Doillon