Serious Quotes

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.

Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.

When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.

When you're serious addict, you tend to lie a lot.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

Autism is a very serious condition.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

In the restaurant it's much more serious.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.

Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious.

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.