Serious Quotes

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.

All serious daring starts from within.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.