Gary Player Quotes

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

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• Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Sad

• I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Humorous

• I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dance

• I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Past
  • Serious

• The idea that an actress - mostly lauded for her performances in more than a dozen films - somehow represents a threat to Iran's national security is laughable at best. But in Ahangarani's case, far from anything humorous, the allegations have actually resulted in the sober prospect of real prison time.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Best

• I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Christian
  • Humorous

• I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Joy

• It's one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but it can be an intense identity crisis.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Identity
  • Humorous

• You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Relationship

• I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

  

  Colm Meaney
  • Character
  • Humorous

• I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

  

  Max Cannon
  • Trying
  • Ironic
  • Humorous

• While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

  

  Ann Beattie
  • People
  • Writing
  • Serious

• I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Poetry

• I'm an indestructible master of war.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • War
  • Masters
  • Indestructible

• A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Worship
  • Century

• I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Film
  • Slave
  • Masters

• The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Humorous
  • Hopeless

• The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • True
  • Christian
  • Masters

• If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Life
  • Persons

• The reports that Media Matters have done about sexism in our society and really the mainstream media called Hillary Clinton "castrating," they called her the B word, they called her all kinds of horrible things. And I think in a sense that it raised the awareness in our country, so that we can have a national discussion about it.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Country
  • Kind
  • Awareness

• What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Giving

• Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Love
  • Ego
  • Merit

• There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

  

  Gary Player
  • Masters
  • Humorous