Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The UFC is a very serious business, it's not the WWE. Guys break their arms and get knocked out in there. — Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Copy Share Image
I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business. — Redfoo Copy Share Image
Tapping of phones is a serious business and has to be authenticated by requisite authorities on valid grounds. — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people view coffee and lunch as personal time, not deal-making time. Unless the person you're meeting understands that this is a… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share Image
I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
I realize now that it is a serious business requiring honest, hard work. The first time Hollywood was served up to me… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
The children - I call them children when they're under 18 - are hungry for that love. The drugs are just a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“This is serious business: you’re representing the Laundry in front of the Black Chamber and some very big defence contractors, old school… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun,… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
“...he could no longer give a thought to anything else. His days passed like hours. At all hours of the day, when… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In fact, I was welcomed. There were movie stars and rock stars. I became a pot star. I glorified in that. And… — George Jung Copy Share Image
Russia committed an act of aggression in Ukraine, and that's the first time since 1945 a European country has seized the territory… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“An accurate budget must be built on a base of thorough research. You must do research on your community to find out… — Nelson Searcy Copy Share Image
“It had been a nice night, but not one they’d repeat. Like, ever. Why was he dialing his phone? A few rings… — Christine Price Copy Share Image
“Back in the pens, once the herd was gathered, the men gingerly and methodically guided the calves into a separate gated area.… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“If I was going to be a woman, I would want to be as beautiful as possible. And they said to me,… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“That is why the second coming of the Lord is not only salvation, not only the omega that sets everything right, but… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“He wants to know, “Why would you fuck up Tris’s Barbies?” and now I’m like, Shit, is this the price of the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few. — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
“writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Yes, Hell is very serious business. That’s why no one ever smiles down there.” — Erica Crouch Copy Share Image
