Serious Quotes

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

I have someone. He's 25. It's nothing serious.

We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

Golf is a very serious part of my life, but when you stop having fun at it, that's when it's time to hang it up.

I'm not serious most of the time.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.

Donald Trump has encouraged Russians to cyber-hack the United States to give him an edge in an election. And that just shows how serious and seriously misguided Donald Trump is.

I never looked at music as a serious ven­ture. There was very little encouragement from my family. I didn't have anybody to entertain, so it was hard to get motivated.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of legislation isn't going to get them anywhere.

It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Honky Tonk Badonkadonk wasnt some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.

Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I am an avid drinker with a serious bowling problem.

This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

I'm very serious about acting.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.

Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.

Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.

I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.