Serious Quotes - Page 25

You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.

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.

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

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

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Good design is serious business.

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

Hey, I'm serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have?

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.