Serious Quotes · Page 71

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

— Rob Zombie

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

— Serena Williams

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius.…

— John Grisham

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

— Bill Nye

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be…

— David Thewlis

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures…

— Natan Sharansky

I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

— Edgar Wright

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and…

— Jacob Needleman

Expect forces to interfere with you and expect to conquer them all, if you are serious about the study. Just as there…

— Frederick Lenz

I really wanted to do some serious work. I really wanted to be a part of dramatic films. I wanted to show…

— Anna Faris

I had a big fight in my first week in secondary school. There was a kid in the year above who was…

— Jonathan Stroud

Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it…

— Eric Schlosser

“Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting…

— Arthur C. Clarke

What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There…

— Anonymous

What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You…

— Christopher Paolini

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy…

— Felix Adler

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business.

— Redfoo

An actor's got a serious duty to perform. God's given him the gift to interpret his creatures. He has to do that…

— Saeed Jaffrey

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not…

— Claire Messud

To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in…

— Angela Merkel

Bill Barr has gutted the Justice Department. Mike Pompeo has gutted the State Department. We are in serious danger here.

— Mary L. Trump

I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been…

— Maxine Peake

In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never…

— John Grisham

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do…

— Rufus Wainwright

We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of…

— Ted Cruz

For 'Dora,' I wasn't sure I wanted to do it. I wanted to go on a serious path. Then I read the…

— Isabela Moner

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such…

— Kwame Nkrumah

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean…

— Christopher Hitchens

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and…

— Shea Hembrey

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Golf is a very serious part of my life, but when you stop having fun at it, that's when it's time to…

— Tiger Woods

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here…

— Thomas Friedman

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and…

— Martha Beck

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

— Louis Dudek

I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what…

— Chad Harbach

Guitar Player' was always the serious musician's magazine. They rarely catered to what was popular. They focused on innovative players.

— Jason Becker

Ever since I got to know how easily skin donation can save the lives of serious burns patients, I have felt strongly…

— Paresh Rawal

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

— Alan Watts