Serious Business Quotes

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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 .

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

Good design is serious business.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country.

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

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

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

An annuity is a very serious business.

Nope, there wasn't any getting out of this. Real first name meant business.