Serious Business Quotes
41 Serious Business quotes by 38 unique authors
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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
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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
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
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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
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Good design is serious business.
— Alan G. Lafley
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
— Walter Scott
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Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.
— Steven Morrissey
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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
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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
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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
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Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
— Martin Lewis Perl
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
— Ray Bradbury
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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
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Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.
— Lin Yutang
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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
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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
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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
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Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
— C.S. Lewis
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Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.
— W.C. Fields
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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
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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
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This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.
— John Mellencamp
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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
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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
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There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.
— Al Franken
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