Serious Quotes

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

I am a serious guy.

As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.

Funny is when you're serious.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.