Serious Quotes
Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.
The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.
There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.
I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.
Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.
I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.
If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.
I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.
My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.
You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.
That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.
Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.
Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.
If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things
Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.
Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.
You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199
It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.