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Quotes About Serious

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
~ Paul McCartney
I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.
~ Phillip Knightley
If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.
~ Thomas Friedman
So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
~ Kim Dae-jung
We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts
~ Alan Keyes
Happiness is an angel with a serious face
~ Amedeo Modigliani
Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile.
~ Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
Just because it had happened before didn't mean it wasn't serious. It didn't mean he didn't need them.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.
~ Gerard Way
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
~ Roland Joffe
I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.
~ Carrot Top
I hope I can now use my ability to communicate, without being too precious or serious. It's good to have some levity, even as you're facing some really dark times, to mix it up a bit.
~ Jay Roach
Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
~ Chinua Achebe
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
~ Aristotle
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
~ Mike Myers
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
~ Erica Jong
That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.
~ John Lennon
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
~ E. B. White
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.
~ John Mortimer
I take music pretty seriously. You see that scar on my wrist? You see that? You know where that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it, OK!
~ Denis Leary
The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.
~ Billy Collins
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.
~ Judd Apatow
I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.
~ Jonathan Kieran