Serious Quotes · Page 107

I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.

— Dennis Skinner

Clearly, in every civilized culture since recorded history, marriage is always between a man and a woman. And the fact that we're…

— Jerry Falwell

If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to…

— Tony Buzan

Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from…

— Dave Barry

“I've found that child's play -stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy- was the stuff I liked to do, so I…

— Matt Groening

What am I selling? Joy, happiness, a way to turn the ugliest ills of life on their head so you can laugh…

— Eddie Griffin

Also, to get to work with serious filmmakers on this kind of a movie, has elevated these movies. We were so lucky,…

— Elizabeth Reaser

When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened." I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't…

— Frederick Lenz

Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your…

— Ben Harper

We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy…

— Paul Tonko

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet

I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

— Joey Badass

For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it…

— John Amos Comenius

I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for…

— Bill Withers

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

— E. Lynn Harris

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

— Gerhard Richter

I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something…

— Alicia Keys

Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play,…

— Garry Kasparov

Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of…

— E. J. Gold

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that…

— Allen Tate

We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a…

— Mary Ellen Mark

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which…

— James Hutton

Policy makers should be compelled to take action given the serious costs of long-term unemployment when overall unemployment is already high. A…

— Janet Yellen

I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a…

— Anthony Hopkins

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It…

— Sheryl Sandberg

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and…

— Cyril Connolly

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

— Maria Thayer

I'm with the president nearly every day. We engage in complex conversations about some of the most weighty matters facing the world.…

— Mike Pompeo

Bill Barr has gutted the Justice Department. Mike Pompeo has gutted the State Department. We are in serious danger here.

— Mary L. Trump

I don't mind playing Nazis, but I'll only play them in comedies. I wouldn't play a serious Nazi.

— Udo Kier

If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators…

— Gordon Smith

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

— George Eliot

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

— W. C. Fields

In June 2002, airport security searched Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore…

— Ann Coulter

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little…

— Denzel Washington

They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love…

— Casey Neistat

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.

— Jane Seymour