“Don’t make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They’re very serious business.” — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing. — Steven Morrissey 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
“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
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
Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the… — Joshua Ferris 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
Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.… — Anonymous 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
“I'm going to take a shower. You're going to be good, try not to be sexy or freak me out or anything… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the… — Abhishek Bachchan 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
“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
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
“SEALs are warriors in every sense of the word: men who actually go into combat on missions that bring them eye to… — Mark L. Donald Copy Share Image
“You about done?” I asked him. “I need the table.” “What is it with you people?” Butters groused. “For God’s sake, these… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“And we saved your life, y’know,” Andrew said, jerking his head in Oliver’s direction. “I mean, the least you could do is… — Zeinab Alayan Copy Share Image
“You're not paying attention to me, are you?" "Eh? What's that? Sorry, love, I didn't hear you. Wasn't paying attention. I had… — Judith James Copy Share Image
“Well, what am I supposed to do?" "Well, you can take a nap, read a little of my book, or close your… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed,rodeos are a serious business.Careless cowboys tend to break bones,or even their skulls,as hard as that may be… — R.C. Ryan 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
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
The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that… — Peter Scott Copy Share Image
No genre is easy. For an actor, it's a serious business even when he's essaying a funny character. In fact, comedy is… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
“There were none of the card games marines usually played in downtimes. They were too tired to concentrate, and poker was serious… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Male Amazon river dolphins will even insert thier penises in each other's blowholes in the only known example of nasal sex.* *I… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
