Serious Quotes
I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.
Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.
My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.
It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.
People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.
Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.
When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious.
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an open Internet. The cost would be so grave, so serious.
The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.
I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.
I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.
To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.
If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.
One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.
I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.
I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.
How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.
Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.
If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.
I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?
A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.
To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.
Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.