Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
[John] Hughes was well aware that to ignore the seriousness of young people is to encourage things like Columbine, so you might… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message. — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level… — James William Middleton Copy Share Image
I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The New York Times I think really is the gold standard of a certain type of journalism and in some ways it's… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Another hard thing that Gord Downie makes easy: singing ironically. If you don't do it right, you come off like a snarky… — Steve Berlin Copy Share Image
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still am mystified about why Donald Trump is out there tweeting praise of Vladimir Putin, and still kind of denying and… — David Corn Copy Share Image
I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image