Deadly Serious Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and…
— Joseph Epstein
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This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.
— Albert Mohler
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I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more…
— Seth Roberts
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There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them…
— Maurice Baring
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One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level…
— Sebastian Haffner
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Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing…
— Ben Nicholson
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Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of…
— Peter Orner
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When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is…
— Etty Hillesum
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There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
— John Hodgman
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I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it…
— Michael Moore
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you…
— Ice T
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The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the…
— Tom Robbins
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The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly…
— Bono
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One day I'll kill him, you know. I glanced at her. She was deadly serious.
— Ilona Andrews
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Percy, meet Gladiola. Gladiola, Percy." I stared at Annabeth, figuring she'd crack up at this practical joke they were playing on me, but she looked…
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Deadly Serious Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Deadly Serious Quotes as follows: