Serious Quotes · Page 50

So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused…

— Steven Hatfill

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

— John Osborne

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the…

— Anonymous

When I was young, I spent years in and out of hospitals because of serious burns I'd suffered and at the age…

— Amanda Redman

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

— Steven Tyler

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

— Anonymous

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

— Taylor Caldwell

I think it’s important to make all women feel like they’re princesses, because every girl is a princess. I’m serious.

— Justin Bieber

The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for…

— Antoine Bechamp

I have set a standard, and I'm going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and…

— Martha Stewart

Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the…

— Anonymous

What really changed my life was watching the movie Juice and the opening scene - just hearing that record rotate. When I…

— Gonjasufi

The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be…

— Benjamin Graham

That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I…

— Amy Grant

We can't accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the…

— Rudy Giuliani

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming…

— George W. Bush

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling…

— Sally Field

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never…

— Alan Furst

Energy is in America. And if we can tap into that safely and appropriately, I guarantee that is something that President Trump…

— Kellyanne Conway

I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors.…

— Denis Villeneuve

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone.…

— Martin Parr

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

— Max Delbruck

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has,…

— George Q. Cannon

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

— Peter DeLuise

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

— Robert Plant

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

— Ian Mckellen

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

— Ruby Wax

To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be…

— Stephen S. Roach

You name me a Super Bowl that had a pacifistic defense, and I'll give you my paycheck. I'm serious. There aren't any.

— Mike Daniels

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a…

— Janet Evanovich

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

— Marianne Moore

I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith…

— Tim Kaine

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an…

— Alexander Grothendieck