Serious Quotes

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

Life's greatest reward is life itself

I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started.

You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

No one's serious at seventeen.

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Serious times require strong leadership.

I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious.

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.