Serious Quotes

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while

I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

When a candidate walks away from a reality show, that's when you know they're serious about being president of the United States.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

I hope I can now use my ability to communicate, without being too precious or serious. It's good to have some levity, even as you're facing some really dark times, to mix it up a bit.

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Donald Trump is not a serious kind of candidate. We need someone that thinks this through. That can lead our country to safety and security.

They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

We need a serious leader to deal with this. And I believe I'm that guy.

The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.

Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration?

You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

CNBC is a very serious-minded financial news network, and what we've seen thus far from Fox appears to be not as investment-focused or financially focused, and that's good for us.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

It's not that serious I never put that much thought into us It wasn't that I loved you I was curious

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

There are reports that French President Francois Hollande had an affair with an actress who is 18 years younger than him. It's pretty serious. Under French law, he could face up to 30 high fives.

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.

I've given my email address to all 3,000 T-Mobile stores. Serious customer escalations come directly to me. Customers get a kick out of me responding to them, and the employees do, too.

As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

These are serious matters, and we can never let up on these sanctions [against Russia].

If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.