Quotes About Serious

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

There was serious reason to pay attention. Those of us who would be leading rifle platoons in the infantry had frequently been reminded that the odds of our being killed or wounded were better than 50 percent.

Publishers, readers, booksellers, even critics, acclaim the novel that one can deliciously sink into, forget oneself in, the novel that returns us to the innocence of childhood or the dream of the cartoon, the novel of a thousand confections and no unwanted significance. What becomes harder to find, and lonelier to defend, is the idea of the novel as—in Ford Madox Ford's words—a "medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.

War is not as the people at home imagine it, with a hurrah and a roar: it is very serious, very grim.'5

The situation is desperate," runs an old Viennese saying, "but not serious.

Her description of her method of work has been quoted over and over again by her critics, and I suppose it is no more ironic that this serious bit of self-depreciation should be taken au pied de la lettre than that her comic ones were.

An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

let's start a magazine to hell with literature we want something redblooded lousy with pure reeking with stark and fearlessly obscene but really clean get what I mean let's not spoil it let's make it serious something authentic and delirious you know something genuine like a mark in a toilet graced with guts and gutted with grace

I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently, said the captain.

You always look for logic even within the madness?" He could feel her eyes on him now, studying him to see if he was serious. He kept his eyes on the road ahead. "It'd be convenient to believe people who commit these types of crimes are simply mad. That there's a neuron or two misfiring inside their brains." "If they're not mad, not crazy, what then?" She hesitated but only briefly before she calmly and quietly said, "They're evil.

And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.

Desgenais... was firm and serious, although a smile hovered about his lips. He was a man of heart, but as dry as a pumice-stone.

Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare. It's a mindset that gave us political talking points, not serious solutions.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.