Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think even the more dramatic moments of one's life are often punctuated by very funny comments or situations. I like to say, "Keep your comedy serious and your drama funny, and you'll be pretty true to life.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.

My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs.

My top priority in life is my workout. Regardless of what happens, I hit that gym. Even when I was in the hospital twice with serious knee operations: Right after I came out of anesthesia, there was a chin bar over my head and dumbbells. I worked out immediately.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

No one can remain neutral regarding Jesus' resurrection. The claim is too staggering, the event too earthshaking, the implications too significant and the matter too serious. We must either receive it or reject it as truth for us. To remain indifferent or undecided is to reject it.

Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.

Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

No one's serious at seventeen.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.

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

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?” – Abigail “I can roll my tongue.” – Sundown “I’m serious, Jess.” – Abigail “So am I. Not everyone can do it. It’s a genetic thing, you know.” – Sundown

Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.

Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan "Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley

Of all the things about de Sade, I would argue he is funny. A lot of people didn't understand de Sade. No. 1, he is a very good writer, and No. 2, he had the courage to talk about a lot of things that in public, even now, almost nobody has the courage to talk about. He would do it with a kind of funny way - not the stories themselves, but the way he tells them. He is never serious.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

On a serious level, I wouldnt tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldnt ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

Once I pull up to the stadium, for me it's all business. This is my job and I take it really serious.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

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

Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we own what we see. That can become for many of us an addiction which adds a complication to our life and takes away our peace of mind. Craving things becomes after a while a serious distraction and an obsession.