Serious Quotes

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

Donald Trump singled out three particular states where he claimed there was, quote, "serious voter fraud" - Virginia, New Hampshire and California. Trump lost all three of those states.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

I'm a person with a ton of energy who likes to scream and party and rock out. And there are other sides of me that are real serious.

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing gear.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

Even though I love fashion, I prefer people to fashion. Fashion is to make the person comfortable in her body, it’s not something very serious, you get to play.

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.