Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

You think it’s a game? Unintelligible? Ha! Envision no spoons. This is serious. It is a matter of joy versus emptiness.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

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

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

Accommodation is a willingness to maintain constructive relationship with others with whom one is in serious and even intractable disagreement. Social cooperation would come under impossible pressure if it always depended on strict agreement.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.

Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.

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

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

Alec Baldwin has done this great Donald Trump. I wish somebody would hire Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions. The only way is to put the two of them out there. it is the most bizarre, pathetic silliness I can imagine at what should be the most serious deliberations in the American government.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease, and I don’t think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they’re openly telling you that they do.

An annuity is a very serious business.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves