Serious Quotes · Page 16

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

— Brenda Ueland

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

— John Muir

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

— Ken Kercheval

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

— Jane Fonda

Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.

— Lisa Kleypas

I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.

— Miles Teller

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

— Robert M. Hutchins

The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.

— Joel McHale

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more…

— John Paulson

I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be…

— T.I

I've advised clients to fire or take other serious action against executives and other managers who, in my judgment, had engaged in…

— Eugene Scalia

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend…

— Rowan Atkinson

“When did you grow a back bone?" Cassius stopped pacing and actually smiled a little. Kendall wasn't appeased "I borrowed Jory's”

— Gabrielle Evans

I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the…

— Steve Zahn

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They…

— Martin Amis

A lot of people disagree with me on this, but the people who want somebody not of Washington, it's serious this time.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the…

— Noam Chomsky

When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to…

— Rand Paul

My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains…

— Melissa Rivers

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do…

— Frank Gehry

The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and…

— Calvin Trillin

It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

In people's minds, I'm a comic, so it took a lot of time before I was recognized as a director. I had…

— Takeshi Kitano

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

— Eudora Welty

Whatever I do, when I'm working, I'm very serious. But after, I will play, I am funny.

— Sammo Hung

Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

— J. R. Martinez

The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.

— Kelly Hu

I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.

— Michael Frome

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.

— Robert De Niro

I tend to read quite serious things in order to try and appear superior.

— Ellie Taylor

'24' was so serious that it was nice to join 'NCIS' and even be able to smile once or twice.

— Annie Wersching

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

— Dave Liebman

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

— Jules Verne

When you combine a Texas woman in a competition setting with her child, she gets very serious.

— Alyssa Edwards

When you commit to a WWE contract, you're committing to some serious time away from home.

— Jeff Hardy

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

— Andy Summers

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

— Louis D. Brandeis

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

— Morten Harket

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

— Donna Shalala