Serious Quotes · Page 7

Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding.

— Wolf Blitzer

Mourinho is serious and demanding.

— Sergio Ramos

One must speak about serious things seriously.

— Anton Chekhov

It's hard to be serious in life.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

— Britta Phillips

I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.

— John Requa

I always fancied myself as serious.

— Demond Wilson

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

— Anonymous

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

— Horace

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

— Poul Anderson

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

— Victor Serge

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

— Jimi Hendrix

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

— Alain de Botton

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

— Raymond Smullyan

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

— Leon Trotsky

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them…

— Aberjhani

I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in…

— James Dean

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies…

— Ron Kind

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before…

— Tomas Young

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious…

— Dalai Lama

“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative…

— Lundy Bancroft

Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into…

— Annalee Newitz

To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have…

— Anonymous

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have…

— Newt Gingrich

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader.…

— Amity Shlaes

Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama…

— Edward Snowden

By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to…

— Annie Dillard

Marijuana addiction is a serious problem

— Chris Christie

Man's most serious activity is play.

— George Santayana

I have someone. He's 25. It's nothing serious.

— Tanika Ray

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

— Eva Herzigova

I always like to do serious plays.

— Charlotte Rae

I'm more serious and mature.

— Shaquill Griffin

A joke's a very serious thing.

— Charles Churchill

My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!

— Dave Matthews