Serious Quotes · Page 90

When a candidate walks away from a reality show, that's when you know they're serious about being president of the United States.

— Jay Leno

“To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any…

— Fritz Zwicky

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

— Rowan Atkinson

We know that the most serious crimes flourish when lower-level criminality and antisocial behaviour are not tackled.

— Suella Braverman

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.

— Agnes Varda

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to…

— LL Cool J

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I could have had my husband put me on a lot of TV shows every day, but I chose not to. I…

— Jennifer Flavin

Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern…

— Darrel Ray

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or…

— William Gibson

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if…

— Immanuel Kant

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious…

— Frederick Reines

Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the…

— Sheldon Vanauken

A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no…

— Rajneesh

I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're…

— Elliott Erwitt

In the e-filing system, the accountant has the user identity and password of each company. This would potentially allow a rogue accountant…

— Sucheta Dalal

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

— Thomas S. Monson

What I have always liked about Italians is the way they are serious when they need to be but know how to…

— Charles Leclerc

It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music…

— Al Jarreau

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

— Oliver Stone

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in…

— Vanessa Kerry

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

— Bernie Sanders

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

— Stanislav Grof

If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your…

— Heather Brooke

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has…

— Robert Downey, Jr

There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.

— Bernard Nathanson

Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things,…

— Leonard Cohen

I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you…

— Bertrand Meyer

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

— George C. Marshall

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

— Van Wyck Brooks

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious…

— Mena Suvari

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

— Nicholas Sparks

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going…

— Bob Proctor

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to…

— John Woolman

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to…

— Marcus Aurelius

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

— Douglas Kennedy