There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards. — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Tapping of phones is a serious business and has to be authenticated by requisite authorities on valid grounds. — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs,… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I realize now that it is a serious business requiring honest, hard work. The first time Hollywood was served up to me… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share Image
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun,… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
“This is serious business: you’re representing the Laundry in front of the Black Chamber and some very big defence contractors, old school… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
“I'm going to take a shower. You're going to be good, try not to be sexy or freak me out or anything… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, "I'm not going to be treated… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“When we recognize that legal rules are simply formulae describing uniformities of judicial decision, that legal concepts likewise are patterns or functions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ is not a cosmic errand boy. I mean no disrespect or irreverence in so saying, but I do intend to… — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
“A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“That is why the second coming of the Lord is not only salvation, not only the omega that sets everything right, but… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“[Kevin and Molly's adorable banter] "I'm not carrying anything until I see what's on your panties." "It's Daphne, okay?" "I'm supposed to… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business. — Redfoo Copy Share Image
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few. — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image