Serious Quotes

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

The guy behind the counter scratches his neck. “Are you being serious?” Her face is stoic. “Absolutely. I never kid about teddy bears.

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

I want a serious girlfriend. Somebody I can love, that's gonna love me back. Is that psycho?

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

I like to laugh. I like to have a good time. I don't like to be so serious about things, so I would want a guy who would want to laugh and have a good time, too.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

Good design is serious business.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

People will know you’re serious when you produce.

At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.