Serious Quotes · Page 36

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

— Clarence Darrow

I have a phobia. I have a serious phobia of rodents. I don't even like white mice, hamsters.

— Zoya Akhtar

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

— Gillian Jacobs

I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

— Jim Carrey

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

— Oscar Wilde

I've been reading everything from serious articles about track to Ryan Lochte's single life.

— Michelle Beadle

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

— Malcolm McDowell

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly…

— Milan Kundera

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

I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself,…

— Sally Schneider

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation…

— Anonymous

I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball,…

— Frank Thomas

Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years…

— Peter Burke

I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine,…

— Sigmund Freud

In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about…

— Adam McKay

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person.…

— Tracy Morgan

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to…

— Jon Meacham

[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt…

— David Horowitz

There is more to American politics than fat cats and their political friends. There are serious-minded liberals who fight the good fight…

— G. William Domhoff

I'm probably less serious about my game than I was in the past. I've lost a brother and father in the past…

— Peter Jacobsen

I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better…

— Nicholas Lemann

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think quite often, being on the new set is not what you expect. The most serious film can be the most…

— Eric Bana

I had delusions of being a 'serious actor,' and I wanted to pursue those delusions.

— John Wesley Shipp

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

— Peter Gabriel

I got very serious about micro-piglets and what it would be like to own them.

— Perfume Genius

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

— Gad Elmaleh

I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've got my game.

— Ernie Els

It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.

— Jack Kerouac

President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country.

— Rashida Tlaib

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

— Kim Campbell

In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.

— Kevin Dillon

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

— Dennis Skinner

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

— Anonymous

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

— A. Edward Newton

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

— Toni Morrison

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

— Victor Serge

Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.

— Alain de Botton

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

— Jimi Hendrix