Serious Quotes · Page 59

British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across…

— Natalie Massenet

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be…

— Charles Kennedy

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one…

— Henry Flynt

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

— Martha Stewart

I would say that most serious artists have a pretty complete idea of what they're going to do before they do it.

— Diego Cortez

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Boston's justice system is in serious need of reform. Many of its policies and practices are antiquated, expensive, and don't really even…

— Shaun King

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

— Andy Rooney

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing…

— John Hawley

At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in…

— Stephen King

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find…

— Panayiotis Zavos

Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose,…

— Erma Bombeck

I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously,…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I actually think it almost works the other way sometimes: making a college textbook, say, look really "user friendly" tends to also…

— Michael Bierut

I want you to know that I’m serious. You’re not a hook up. You’re not a friend with benefits. You’re more than…

— J. Lynn

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

— David Remnick

Doing comedy stuff is maybe more fun, but maybe the serious stuff is a little bit more rewarding.

— Adam Page

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

— Soren Kierkegaard

It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have,…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should…

— Gerard Way

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and…

— David Shields

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator…

— Larry Moss

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the…

— Chris Martin

I have cheated. But I don't regret it because we were not serious. I wouldn't have ever done it if I were…

— Abhay Deol

Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an…

— Alexis Ohanian

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

— Dalai Lama

Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.

— Simon Weston

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

— Walter Scott

Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to…

— Brendon Urie

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be…

— Ralph Merkle

Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly…

— Eugene Kennedy

If one of my friends said they'd written a little role for me in a sitcom, I'd definitely do it and I'd…

— Josh Widdicombe

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.…

— Anonymous

Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you…

— Niall Ferguson

Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble…

— Khoi Vinh

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

— Jonathan Franzen

I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that…

— Marian Anderson