Serious Quotes

Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.

This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

I've never been married, and I've never been divorced. But I have had some very serious relationships. I was engaged twice. The way that those relationships ended, it was very very heartbreaking.

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be introduced into the holy rites of the liturgy.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?