Serious Business Quotes

41 Serious Business quotes by 38 unique authors

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good… — Maya Angelou
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 doing, as is… — Dave Barry
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest. — Marie de France
To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Good design is serious business. — Alan G. Lafley
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott
Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing. — Steven Morrissey
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation,… — Unknown Author
Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't… — Ronald Graham
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. It's 365 pages… — Rachel Wade
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. — Martin Lewis Perl
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. — Ray Bradbury
Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence. — Dennis Overbye
Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it. — Lin Yutang
Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to… — Robin Boyd
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. — Arthur Miller
Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously. — C.S. Lewis
Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh. — W.C. Fields
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or… — Arthur Miller
This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running… — Sarah Lacy
This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll. — John Mellencamp
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to… — Seneca the Younger
Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life… — C.S. Lewis
There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business. — Al Franken

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