Serious Quotes · Page 29

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

— Aubrey de Grey

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

— Sachin Tendulkar

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

— Barbara De Angelis

The dream was always to act: I want to do a scary movie, I want to do serious stuff.

— Megan Stalter

Climate change poses a serious, immediate and global threat to health.

— Vivek Murthy

Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.

— Stephen R. L. Clark

Boxing is serious. It's not a game. Just one punch - change life.

— Gennady Golovkin

I could never see myself playing a goblin or gnome, without some serious CGI at least!

— Kristian Nairn

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my…

— Russell Banks

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

— John McGahern

Me, coming from a low-income background, I really didn't take my studies serious as a young kid.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with…

— Jacqueline Bisset

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to…

— Sterling K. Brown

It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by…

— Jill Johnston

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a…

— Robert Rainy

What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and…

— Edward Norton

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons.…

— Bruce Sterling

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a…

— Robert M. Pirsig

We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention --…

— Hanan Ashrawi

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend…

— Campbell Scott

When it comes to understanding the nuts and bolts of the details of any policy, the elites haven't the slightest idea. I'm…

— Rush Limbaugh

One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present…

— Fred Hoyle

I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I…

— Rosamond Lehmann

I never intended to only do dark, serious things.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

— Michel de Montaigne

You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.

— Michael Beschloss

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

— Iris Murdoch

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

— Helen Clark

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

— Mark Ruffalo

I've only had one serious boyfriend, but we dated for three years.

— Miranda Cosgrove

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

— Homer

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.

— Paula Pell

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

— Colin Powell

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

— Milan Kundera

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

— Bertrand Russell

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

— G. H. Hardy

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

— Jules Verne