Serious Quotes · Page 63

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll…

— Maya Angelou

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to…

— Reese Witherspoon

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are…

— Sam Shepard

I can proudly say that I had no scandal throughout my career. And there was no serious injury worries because of what…

— Jay-Jay Okocha

I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now…

— Willie Geist

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

— Suzanne Fields

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

— Johnny Carson

It upsets me where you do a take and people go 'that's so funny,' and you think 'I was being serious.'

— Tom Bateman

If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts…

— Woody Allen

We've had people like Marc Vivien-Foe die while playing. There have been too many others, including Cheick Tiote. The clubs and the…

— Nwankwo Kanu

I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and…

— William Stanley Jevons

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

— Shy Glizzy

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

— Jack Layton

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

— Hippocrates

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

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate…

— Ehud Olmert

I like to laugh. I like to have a good time. I don't like to be so serious about things, so I…

— Kate Upton

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

— Virginia Woolf

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial…

— Daniel Goleman

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

— Lee Trevino

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to…

— Amilcar Cabral

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

— Greta Gerwig

Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that,…

— Coco Rocha

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

— James Forrestal

Breeders' Cup is your last chance to make serious money, and it's for championships, which impacts how much these horses earn to…

— Bob Baffert

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little…

— Denzel Washington

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how…

— Sam Lipsyte

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as…

— Michel de Montaigne

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But…

— Werner Heisenberg

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come…

— Dorothy Parker

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but…

— Margaret Geller

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental…

— Thomas Huxley

When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get…

— Amy Childs

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

— Woodrow Wilson

I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am…

— Jimmy Page

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death…

— Byron White

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to…

— Garth Ennis

In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago

— William J. Clinton