Serious Quotes

You need to have a life. Have fun. Then ruin it by having a serious relationship

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

If you know me, you know I make every day count, I'm serious about my life.

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

No human thing is of serious importance.

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

If [Moroccans born in Holland] commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does.

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

I'm pretty goofy and I make a lot of dumb jokes - life is too short to be serious, so I guess that's how I flirt. To be honest, I think I'm too shy and reserved to be a proper old fashioned flirt.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.

God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.

Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.