Serious Quotes - Page 23

Serious art is born from serious play.

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

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.

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.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.

You have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools.

Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

Funny is when you're serious.

Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

Autism is a very serious condition.