Serious Quotes - Page 22

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.

...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

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

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse

Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.