Quotes About Serious

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

The past few weeks, I've been seeing coyote hunters during the day with their jeeps and pickups parked by the road, talking into walkie-talkies, dead-serious looks on their faces. In their camouflage clothes, they look like members of a SWAT team about to break into a methamphetamine lab. They must imagine that there's some danger. Are the coyotes armed and dangerous?

We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.

I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren't exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.

Some of the early speculation I saw in the press was that I am a rail fan. I'm not. This is not a hobby. This is a full-time business, and a very serious one at that. We're making this railroad work.

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past.

Jack supposed that a very big and old crocodile must take a certain pride in his work, viz. swallowing and digesting whatever came along, and that an attempt to revoke a meal by yanking it out must be viewed, by such a Reptile, as a very serious affront. In any event it led to an amount of thrashing.

Let me tell you a couple of things while we're walking. By the time we get to the café, if you think I'm a creep or a nutcase, just tell me, and I'll simply buy you a coffee and be on my way. But if you don't think I'm a creep or a nutcase, then we're going to have a very serious conversation that could take hours. Do you have dinner plans?

Heaven has no taste. Now- And not one single sushi restaurant. A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.

Wait. Let me guess. You're giving me the cold shoulder, right?" With that, she sighed. "Shouldn't you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?" He laughed. "That's funny. I'll have to remember that." "I'm not being funny. I'm being serious." "Oh, because we're so good-looking

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

I was lucky to land up in Mumbai when serious cinema was just beginning to flower.

I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

I clearly had a career in musical theater ahead of me and somewhere took a left turn and started getting all dour and serious and doing emotionally broken dukes.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.