Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people. Votes: 4
Manny PacquiaoLosing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart. Votes: 4
Yoko OnoI don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. Votes: 4
Ray BradburySerious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh. Votes: 3
Ian McDiarmidSerious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. Votes: 3
Witold GombrowiczStill, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied. Votes: 3
Louise RennisonSerious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. Votes: 3
Albert SchweitzerSerious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. Votes: 3
Chinua AchebeI think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. Votes: 2
Umberto EcoMix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. Votes: 2
HoraceThose who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters. Votes: 1
Cato the ElderThroughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody. Votes: 1
John BrockmanLife's too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly. Votes: 1
Jarod KintzTo believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book. Votes: 1
Michael Bassey JohnsonI want to be bullied.But in again and you'll pay.""She... wants to be bullied...? Votes: 1
Yuna KagesakiA good team needs three things: the right people, the right spirit, and a couple inside jokes. Votes: 1
VanillaCreamPie8888I ask myself, "Why am I so serious?" Everyone else asks me, "Why are you such a joker? Votes: 1
T.J. BowesI've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAny serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism. Votes: 0
Gary L. FrancioneAmerican 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 InfanteTaking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help. Votes: 0
Maggie StiefvaterYou have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously. Votes: 0
Diego Della ValleThe war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men. Votes: 0
Charles Bracelen FloodYou're right, he's a killer," you said. "A rooster with some serious issues. Votes: 0
Lucy ChristopherPlaying as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. Votes: 0
Iain Duncan SmithA 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 SevigneTo remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanYouth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. Votes: 0
Richard Francis BurtonIt 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 CongreveThe United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.
Mahmoud AhmadinejadPsychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.
Fyodor DostoevskyLet your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
George WashingtonTrue art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheKnow about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
Marilyn vos SavantNeither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA 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 Drake