Serious Quotes

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.

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

I don't think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.

If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.

Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.

Don't be serious, be sincere.

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.

I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

David Boreanaz is pretty funny. He's probably the one that cracks everybody up the most on set. He can be very serious as well, but when he's silly he's pretty silly.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic.

If there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it.

Laughter is more serious than tears.

I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.

The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get. Set your sights higher.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn't think I'd make 30.

We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.

Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious person sometimes. I'm very very hardworking. I'm very academic.

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.