Quotes About Serious

I lit a cigarette and said to Feldspen, "That sounds to me like the biggest extortion this side of the Federal Income Tax. Are you sure the guy was serious?

Knowing almost nothing about books or serious magazines, intellectually he is a creature of the movie house, where he is an easy prey to fantasies concocted by Hollywood for the gullible. He

But... you're still getting married? Grover sounded hurt. Who's the bride? Ploypemus looked toward the boiling pot. Clarisse made a strangled sound. Oh, no! You can't be serious. I'm not-

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible.

Should you be driving? said the woman. I should be driving, I told her. I gave her a very-serious grown-up-to-grown-up sort of look. The situation is dire.

Headache, hmm? His expression went serious. Do you know what's the best cure for that? What? Orgasm. He said it so matter-of-factly I had to sputter a laugh. Multiple, if possible, he continued. It's a proven medical fact that one physiologic event, like orgasm, can cancel out the effects of another physiological process, such as a headache. His expression was perfectly serious, but I said, You're full of shit. Perhaps. If so, you should call my bluff. Just open the door and we'll test it out.

It seemed trivial. After the battlefield it was going to be difficult to take seriously some of the stuff people worried about in peacetime.

Are you dating anyone?' 'Sally Dasilva.' 'The actress. I saw a picture of the two of you, arriving at some premiere, but I didn't know if it was serious.' It was not very serious. 'She's in LA, and we both work a lot. But we get a weekend together once in a while.' 'By the

No, thank you, it's nothing serious." A headache that was not serious was the usual euphemism for a menstrual period, and everyone accepted this without further comment.

Whatever else Lenin might have done—and it was difficult to separate the truth from the conservative propaganda—at least, Billy thought, he was serious about educating Russian children. On

No doubt a serious spy would pretend to have no interest in politics, or even to be a Republican.

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

Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

It was time for some serious thinking, and Jasper didn't reckon he should do that on an empty lung. Empty head was one thing; lungs needed smoke to survive – so his ol' Pap'd said.

Some of these viruses," he warned, citing coronaviruses in particular, "should be considered as serious threats to human health. These are viruses with high evolvability and proven ability to cause epidemics in animal populations.

I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears.