Serious Quotes

There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization.

I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.

Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice.

If I can be serious now, and I have the feeling I can.

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

For me, I'm a fan of really dark, depressing stuff. Even something like The Wire, which can be hugely depressing and really serious, the bits I always remember are the jokes, you know?

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.

I would say that most serious artists have a pretty complete idea of what they're going to do before they do it.

As a star you never know when people are really serious.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

I've always been pretty serious and introspective.

It's a very serious endeavor for me [to play in the same movie with my son]. It's not for a lot of people. It was a wonderful job. I've wanted to do it since I can remember.

We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation.

I never said I'd support Paul Ryan. I'm giving it very serious consideration.

Hillary Clinton's guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run for president.

In America, we have an infrastructure that's so bad, our roads, our highways, our schools, our tunnels, our bridges. Look at our bridges. Half of them have reports that they are in serious danger.

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

I think we're gonna end up with a much better relationship with Mexico. We will have the wall and in a very serious form Mexico will pay for the wall.

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want.

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.

Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.

Every major industrial society believes that it has a serious youth problem.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.