You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously. Votes: 3
Diego Della ValleIn a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeGod is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too. Votes: 3
R. C. SproulLife never be serious with you it always make fun of you so learn to have fun. Votes: 3
Siddhant R. ShindeI never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. Votes: 3
Hank AaronThe journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire. Votes: 2
Yahoo SeriousSo we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long. Votes: 2
Yahoo SeriousWhile the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour. Votes: 2
Yahoo SeriousI've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAmerican literature had always considered writing a very serious matter Votes: 0
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteAmerican literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. Votes: 0
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteAny serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism. Votes: 0
Gary L. FrancioneTaking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help. Votes: 0
Maggie StiefvaterChess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. Votes: 0
Wilhelm SteinitzIt was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy. Votes: 0
Jack KerouacPsychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyMarkets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyExistentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke. Votes: 0
Wislawa SzymborskaEven fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world. Votes: 0
Noah BaumbachThis generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy. Votes: 0
Albert MohlerIf [Boris Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt. Votes: 0
Rupert MurdochThe war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men. Votes: 0
Charles Bracelen FloodPlaying as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonSerious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. Votes: 0
Witold GombrowiczStill, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied. Votes: 0
Louise RennisonYou're right, he's a killer," you said. "A rooster with some serious issues. Votes: 0
Lucy ChristopherThat's pretty weird"and when I say something's weird, you know it's serious. Votes: 0
Richelle MeadIdentity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year. Votes: 0
Ben BernankeThank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well. Votes: 0
Edsger DijkstraHumor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. Votes: 0
Malcolm MuggeridgeThose who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters. Votes: 0
Cato the ElderI've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy. Votes: 0
Ian MckellenEveryone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward. Votes: 0
Ed O'BrienSerious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh. Votes: 0
Ian McDiarmidOne death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. Votes: 0
Richard Francis BurtonTo remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWe do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. Votes: 0
Iain Duncan SmithYouth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonA nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeNot to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind. Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneThere is no room for play in Islam ... It is deadly serious about everything. Votes: 0
Ruhollah KhomeiniNorth Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered. Votes: 0
Dave LiebmanTrump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern. Votes: 0
Jonathan ChaitThe gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet. Votes: 0
Roxanne RobertsI think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. Votes: 0
Umberto EcoSerious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerLife is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing. Votes: 0
Steven MorrisseySurely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Votes: 0
John MuirThe United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious. Votes: 0
Mahmoud AhmadinejadOnce you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. Votes: 0
Louise MenschLet your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave. Votes: 0
George WashingtonWhen you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding. Votes: 0
John ScottKnow about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes. Votes: 0
Marilyn vos SavantNeither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonTurkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy. Votes: 0
Ali BabacanI could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future. Votes: 0
Adam CarollaI think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with. Votes: 0
Chris ChristieI always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia. Votes: 0
Johnny VegasI'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream. Votes: 0
Anthony BourdainMan is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonGetting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all. Votes: 0
Lena HeadeyFor the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianTrue art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living. Votes: 0
James Cash PenneySerious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. Votes: 0
Chinua AchebeIt is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithI find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. Votes: 0
William CongreveI am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing. Votes: 0
Khushwant SinghHow can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous? Votes: 0
Okakura KakuzōThe nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes. Votes: 0
Willie GeistI am completely serious. When I decide to do something, I decide to really do it. Votes: 0
Steve LillywhiteMy whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.' Votes: 0
Craig RobinsonIt seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiI was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry. Votes: 0
Denis O'HareWhen I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all. Votes: 0
Seann William ScottWhen I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all. Votes: 0
Sean William ScottI am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world. Votes: 0
Helena ChristensenWas a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while Votes: 0
Janet EvanovichA bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
Henry A. KissingerFear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.
Louis D. BrandeisThere is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.
Sterling W SillI very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
Jessica SavitchI've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.
Kiernan ShipkaChess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Napoleon Bonaparte[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.
Edward GibbonIrritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things
John SchuerholzYou can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
Norman Mailerthe sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.
Storm JamesonMuch of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.
Alain de BottonIn Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.
Frederick LenzGerman history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.
Horst SeehoferChildren's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
Michel de MontaignePeople find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
Mignon McLaughlinIt is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
Robert M. HutchinsI went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.
Robert SchwentkeNo serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.
Frederic G. KenyonThese are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.
Marianne WilliamsonChildren's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de MontaigneThe more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.
Radhanath SwamiThere's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase
Sergei DovlatovIf there is anything serious enough to make a difference in my ife, I will talk about it.
Anushka SharmaA love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
Charles BukowskiSex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.
George SandIf there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
Lin Yutangit is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.
Mary OliverGetting married is a serious matter for a girl; not getting married is even more serious.
Nicolas BentleyIâm a much nicer person, much more laid-back and relaxed, not serious like they show me.
Olivia PalermoIt'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
Anthony BurgessWe are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
Brenda UelandI think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.
Eddie GlaudeThe only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
Madeleine L'EngleI'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.
Penelope MitchellVery few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
Robertson DaviesWriters read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.
Alan LightmanYesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car. It wasn't serious â nobody saw me.
Anthony JeselnikI have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.
Avril LavigneWorldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world
Bryan CaplanVisuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
Dee Dee RamoneIf you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.
Frank GehryWhenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.
John AdamsIt turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.
Kiera CassMany a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
Robert GreeneThe market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.
Seth GodinLight reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.
Stephen D. KrashenLight matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.
Yamamoto TsunetomoMy favorite people to have fun with are police officers 'cause they're so serious, you know.
Gabriel IglesiasI'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.
Jack NicklausI love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.
Maria ThayerHere's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.
Max LucadoI want a serious girlfriend. Somebody I can love, that's gonna love me back. Is that psycho?
Michael SchoefflingI grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.
Nicolas Winding RefnTo justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
Walter SickertIt requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
Aiden Wilson TozerYou know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.
Cleo MooreIn Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
Karl KrausWe Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
Mary RenaultThose who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.
Stephen R. L. ClarkHe liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
Warren G. Harding... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.
Douglas J. MooMany ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
Paul TournierDear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.
Steig LarssonYou have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.
Will RogersEverything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
Clarence DarrowI think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
Guy RitchieThe first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
John Perry BarlowI want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin TendulkarI love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things
SelenaI'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.
Alan RickmanEven though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!
Bill FitchI was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
Jacques Yves CousteauEven talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.
Joe BuckI always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious.
Peter JacobsonSports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.'
Ronda RouseyThat's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.
Sean O'CaseyLife is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.
TobyMacWomen are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
Walter Scott'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.
Artie LangeSmiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings.
Gayle PembertonAn interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
Jane AustenThey [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.
Jeb BushWhen the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious!
Mehmet Murat ildanThe pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.
Pope Paul VII always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve MartinIslam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them
Tariq RamadanEvangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
Os GuinnessThe easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
Adam McKayThere is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.
Alexandra David-NeelIt's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!
EamonThe hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
Helen RowlandI had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.
Helena ChristensenTemptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious
John OwenI consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
Kevin EubanksIsn't it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?
Mary OliverWriting is not a serious business. It's a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
Ray BradburyArt is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Oscar WildeThe current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
Abhisit VejjajivaI was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.
Brooklyn SudanoI do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.
George SaintsburyLilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.
John IrvingThe problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
Joseph EpsteinI think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
Martha StewartIn the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.
Michel GondryMagic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.
Scott CunninghamI've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.
Simon WestonA poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
Thomas CarlylePeople who watch Transporter are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
Olivier MegatonI don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.
Andrew CuomoTo live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonI am uniquely positioned and prepared to be president. I can assure you I am serious. I am committed
Dan QuayleOur planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
David SuzukiIt's not that serious I never put that much thought into us It wasn't that I loved you I was curious
Jennifer LopezIn developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
Joseph StiglitzThe troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
LivyAnd as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
Pliny the YoungerSo, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout.
Rick RiordanThe prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.
Wiley DrakePeople who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on. Votes: 1 Olivier Megaton
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously. Votes: 4 Patrick Dempsey
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious. Votes: 3 Joel Hodgson
My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words. Votes: 4 James Howe
I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions. Votes: 0 Gregory Maguire
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. Votes: 2 Yahoo Serious
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. Votes: 2 George Bernard Shaw
I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it. Votes: 4 Julian Barnes
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. Votes: 3 Julia Child
Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me. Votes: 3 Steve Buscemi
I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes. Votes: 4 Carnie Wilson
I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions. Votes: 3 Avril Lavigne
I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues. Votes: 3 Sally Field
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. Votes: 2 Michel de Montaigne
I had a girlfriend when I was about 13 but we didn't stay together for very long and I've not really been out with many people since. I've still never had a serious girlfriend but I would happily go out with someone if the right girl came along. Votes: 3 Niall Horan
We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury. Votes: 3 Andrew von Eschenbach
I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke. Votes: 2 James Gandolfini
Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal. Votes: 1 Daniel Snyder
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I. Votes: 2 Barack Obama
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. Votes: 4 Sophie Swetchine
I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious. Votes: 3 Amanda Peet
I have a serious love for clothes, like no other. Votes: 3 Jennifer Hudson
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence. Votes: 4 A. Scott Berg
I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes. Votes: 3 Joe Thomas
The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way? Votes: 3 Katharine Hamnett
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. Votes: 1 Charlie Chaplin
I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits. Votes: 6 Jay McInerney
I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits. Votes: 3 Jay McInerney
But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. Votes: 3 James Meade
I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want. Votes: 3 Scott Rudin
I thought that plastic surgery was easy, but it is really serious and is not something you want to mess around with. Votes: 1 Heidi Montag
I never intended to only do dark, serious things. Votes: 4 Joseph Gordon-Levitt
When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking. Votes: 3 Steven Tyler
There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America! Votes: 3 Mira Sorvino
I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want. Votes: 4 Scott Rudin