Earnest Quotes - page 8

Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you're (linguistically) dead. (David Crystal)
There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way? View quote
Maggie Q
I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton. View quote
John C. Reilly
My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives. View quote
Heber J. Grant
I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center. View quote
Anna Camp
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. View quote
Bruce Feiler
In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them. View quote
Ellie Kemper
When mons. Descartes's philosophical Romance, by the Elegance of its Style and the plausible Accounts of natural Phænomena, had overthrown the Aristotelian Physics, the World received but little Advantage by the Change: For instead of a few Pedants, who, most of them, being conscious of their Ignorance, concealed it with hard Words and pompous Terms; a new Set of Philosophers started up, whose lazy Disposition easily fell in with a Philosophy, that required no Mathematicks to understand it, and who taking a few Principles for granted, without examining their Reality or Consistence with each other, fancied they could solve all Appearances mechanically by Matter and Motion; and, in their smattering Way, pretended to demonstrate such things, as perhaps Cartesius himself never believed; his Philosophy (if he bad been in earnest) being unable to stand the test of the Geometry which he was Master of. View quote
John Theophilus Desaguliers
Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation. View quote
Ilchi Lee
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence. View quote
Janet Reno
I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen. (Jim Parrack)
I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that. View quote
Jimmy Carl Black
I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect. View quote
Julianna Baggott
The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards. View quote
Kara Swisher
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. View quote
Liberty Hyde Bailey
After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. View quote
John Biddle
I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest. View quote
Nancy Horan
The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation. View quote
Tran Duc Luong
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'. View quote
Walton Goggins
It would be terribly boring to be earnest. View quote
Adrien Brody
When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy. (Dwayne Johnson)
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do. View quote
William James
Honesty is one part eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. View quote
William Hazlitt
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. View quote
Henry David Thoreau