Serious Quotes - Page 40

It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

I've liked music since I can remember and the guitar was always the most attractive thing about music to me at that time. I played guitar in a high school band. I played guitar in various other bands up until I was 20, but nothing too serious. From time to time someone would ask me to play with a group, but I stopped playing with band-oriented projects as a whole soon after.

In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.

The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way.

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

I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate.

There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious.

People think that I'm very serious.

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.

Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

If I'm a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert.

Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can.

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so.

For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

We have to get serious about living within our means.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.