Serious Quotes - Page 31

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

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

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

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

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

I only auditioned at four schools. I started performing and studying when I was in middle school, and then as I got into high school, it just got more serious. I feel like it became more of a vocation. It became clear to me at that point that I wanted to pursue it.

One of the things about Scrubs is that it's about great friendships and... as broad and as serious as we get it's always really about friendship. It's about getting through the challenging parts of your life with the help of your friends.

It raises several serious questions. For example, how can there possibly be more than one person as awesome as me?

The only way to get a serious message across is through comedy

There are many serious and knotty issues that I must face each day, but the Pope Francis reminds me by his example and his words that Christ has already redeemed creation and we are saved, even when that might not be so obvious because of the world's many problems and our own grievous sinfulness.

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

There is nothing serious in Mortality

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

I'm very serious about acting.