In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.
Terry Pratchett
There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke
I understand the seriousness of concussions.
Peyton Manning
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.
Brie Larson
Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
I became a beach bum.
George Best
I don't want to look like a bum.
Bobby Fischer
I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.
Rod Stewart
I model jeans. You need a bum for those.
Georgia May Jagger
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.
Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
The Cubs are due in sixty-two.
Ernie Banks
My parents were sixty years married.
Roddy Doyle
The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.
Ernie Banks
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
James Stephens
The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies!
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
Knock the 't' off the 'can't'
George Reeves
I knock on my board to unjinx myself.
Chloe Kim
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.
David O. Selznick
Basically I try not to knock other comedians.
I would never let myself knock out a journalist.
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
He's sitting in the catbird seat.
Red Barber
I hope to die in the saddle seat.
Albert Ellis
Superman don't need no seat belt.
Muhammad Ali
I operate by the seat of my pants.
Jim Finks
I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
I'm not running for anything but my own seat.
He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.
Billy West
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
Taylor Swift
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.
The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
Night hath a thousand eyes.
John Lyly
I write a thousand words a day.
Lisa See
I've read a thousand private-eye novels.
Shane Black
Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.
Francois Truffaut
There are a thousand ways to play any role.
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
People think I'm nuts.
Shirley MacLaine
Most people think I'm immodest.
Larry David
God is bigger than people think.
Jimmy Dean
I am not as crazy as people think.
Tom Sizemore
I am shyer than most people think.
People think I'm totally crackers.
People think that I'm very serious.
I tend to sleep a lot.
Dean Winters
I tend to notice work.
Leon Redbone
I tend to like dry humor.
Dan Scanlon
I tend to be reactionary.
Billy Corgan
I tend to explain my songs.
I tend to read non-fiction.
We tend to get what we expect.
A novel is not a rant.
Rachel Kushner
A novel is about people.
Judy Blume
Novel writing wrecks homes.
C. S. Forester
I wrote the worst novel ever.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I've never abandoned the novel.
Novel writing is solitary work.
'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.
I have fantastic ideas.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I like audacious ideas.
Gregory Benford
My novels are all ideas.
Michel Houellebecq
Ideas have consequences.
Robert Zubrin
I admire American ideas.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Remember where you came from.
Donald Rumsfeld
Remember that credit is money.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember to always be yourself.
Joss Whedon
I remember being taught my place.
Remember we're all in this alone.
Remember to play after every storm.
I know what sin is.
Brigitte Bardot
Dating is... weird.
Jennifer Coolidge
I know what poverty is.
Manny Pacquiao
Home is where my mom is.
Brittany Murphy
I go where the action is.
My motto is, 'Never quit.'
Home is where my family is.
I'm short and to the point.
Shaquille O'Neal
My son's a West Point cadet.
Victor Mitchell
Selma was the turning point.
John Lewis
Patience was not my strong point.
Lauren Bacall
I was a delivery boy at one point.
What's the point of staying sober?
Talent is only the starting point.
Everyone can change.
Hillary Clinton
Everyone has a past.
Darrell Issa
Everyone loves twins.
Cole Sprouse
I'm not for everyone.
Tig Notaro
Everyone has a story.
I look like everyone.
Everyone loves bunnies.
I have a long fuse.
Katherine Jenkins
CEOs can stay too long.
Mark V. Hurd
I track some long hours.
Jim Pattison
Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life is one long jubilee.
Despotism is a long crime.
Gratitude goes a long way.
Don't fight forces, use them.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Their future is ahead of them.
Curt Gowdy
Inner demons? Got none of them.
Jamie Bell
To lead people walk behind them.
Lao Tzu
I don't have ulcers; I give them.
One finds limits by pushing them.
Everyone has a Latino inside them.
Music is important.
Jessi Colter
Desire is important.
Eric Cantona
Reading is important.
John Garfield
Nothing is important.
Harry Dean Stanton
Every down is important.
Faith is important to me.
Writers are so important.
Well, I'm English.
Roger Michell
I know Russia well.
Chrystia Freeland
Well, excuuuuuse me!
Steve Martin
Well, I love clothes.
Celine Buckens
Well, I'm an optimist.
I don't lie very well!
Well, I like shopping.
Time is bunk.
Douglas Adams
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
My time is now.
John Turner
My time is now.
Kevin Durant
I own my own time.
Time stays, we go.
Time is very weird.