Serious Quotes

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.

A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I had to amputate your arms"

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail to secure our borders? Who will put us 14 trillion dollars in debt?

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

I have a serious love for clothes, like no other.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Once I pull up to the stadium, for me it's all business. This is my job and I take it really serious.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that we are asleep.

All my works are games, serious game.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.