Serious Quotes · Page 20

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

— Sacha Guitry

I be talking to females but nothing serious, just entertaining everybody.

— King Von

It took four days from discovering I had cancer to finding out how serious the problem was.

— Charley Boorman

It's okay to be serious but try to have fun with whatever you're doing.

— Ryan Fleck

I like a lot of different things equally, with no boundaries, and in a very serious way.

— Du Yun

I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

— Parker Posey

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

— Nigel Short

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn,…

— Marianne Williamson

Life is serious. (Valerius) No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I…

— Madeleine Albright

No doubt, the fight against ISIS is deadly serious, as was the raid that took down their elusive leader.

— Lara Trump

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

— Jack Kemp

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

— Norman Cousins

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.

— Stephen McCauley

To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the…

— Barbara Holland

We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very…

— Paul Banks

It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of…

— Hippocrates

People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about…

— Jack Layton

I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So,…

— Shy Glizzy

With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I…

— Harold Ramis

The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades -…

— Nicholas Bloom

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer…

— Eric Burns

We're serious musicians. And we dont want our shows to be circuses.

— Dusty Hill

Any shortage of drinking water is a serious issue.

— Mike Parson

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

— James Joyce

I always had a pretty serious fascination with fire. Luckily I'm not an arsonist!

— Janet Varney

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

— Tim Bishop

I've grown up watching 'BQC' and 'KBC' and that's really serious stuff.

— Varun Sharma

When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.

— Johnny Isakson

I think it's in a way my tragedy that people don't see me for the serious roles I have played.

— Deepti Naval

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

— D.A. Wallach

If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

— George Carlin

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

— David Nicholls

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

— Jonny Lang

You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

— Neil Abercrombie

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

— Kurt Schwitters

To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious.

— Kent Steffes

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

— Moses Mendelssohn