Said in sport, meant in earnest.
When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing inten...
The sensation of the ocean bearing my weight was the most carefree lightness I’d ever experienced. When we were halfway across the strait, the sound of an engine approached from a distance—it was probably the police coast guard. We quickly ducked...
He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest man when his hatred is up. I know many who do worse things; but I'd rather listen to them all a dozen times, than to that Monks once.
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It ...
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.
