Jean-Michel Jarre (1948) French composer, performer and music producer
Interviewed on the Danish Monitor radio programme 2005-11-30
“Like all truly brave people Antonio is light-hearted and likes to joke and make fun of serious things.”
Hemingway is describing his friend, the famous bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez.
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 3
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“A joke is a very serious thing.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Sometimes attributed to Winston Churchill, it is in fact a slight misquote of "A joke's a very serious thing" from the 1763 poem "The Ghost" by Charles Churchill.
Misattributed
“A joke's a very serious thing.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) (1731–1764) British poet
Book IV, line 1386
The Ghost (1763)
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, Mark Bennett, Bill Nye still rocking science - TV personality making weekend appearance in town to help open Children's Museum, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Indiana, September 24, 2010]
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_story_of_my_boyhood_and_youth/ (1913), chapter 5: Young Hunters <br class="br">1910s
“You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious.”
Bob Black book The Abolition of Work
The Abolition of Work (1985)
Context: These experts who offer to do our thinking for us rarely share their conclusions about work, for all its saliency in the lives of all of us. Among themselves they quibble over the details. Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they haggle over the price. Marxists think we should be bossed by bureaucrats. Libertarians think we should be bossed by businessmen. Feminists don't care which form bossing takes so long as the bosses are women. Clearly these ideology-mongers have serious differences over how to divvy up the spoils of power. Just as clearly, none of them have any objection to power as such and all of them want to keep us working.
You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious. To be ludic is not to be ludicrous. Play doesn't have to be frivolous, although frivolity isn't triviality: very often we ought to take frivolity seriously. I'd like life to be a game — but a game with high stakes. I want to play for keeps.
“They were brave and splendid, all the men. They died like brave men.”
Steve Turner (1949) British writer
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 151