Quotes About Serious

I am most passionate about dancing and acting, so performing was my focus, always. Even before I was old enough to be serious about it, I was always meddling with things - dancing all over the place and performing for my family.

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

I'm serious, in general, and I guess I cling onto the little freedom I have offscreen. Having said that, I am funny and, at the same time, detached from a lot of things in life.

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously.  If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't.  Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

I talk so trivially about life because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest idea.  About everything, I should fancy.  You have such an absolutely trivial nature.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

I laughed derisively. For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious. I was laughing. Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit. Derisively, I explained.

You see, people don't really get that Oklahoma seems to breed talent. Sure, a bunch of it leaves. But still. Talent. It's a serious mistake to underestimate any Okie.

fessor Langdon? Are you there? The phones are disabled. You're my only contact. Professor Langdon?!" "Yes—Winston? I'm here," Langdon replied over the sound of applause around him. "Thank goodness," Winston said. "Listen carefully. We may have a serious problem.

My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.

Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some levity in it, as some of us had discovered to our embarrassment at funerals.

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Cada vez es mayor la evidencia de que los pacientes deprimidos que se hallan aquejados de una enfermedad grave también deberían recibir tratamiento para su depresión.

I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing at all. I'm doing the other thing.

Sex is funny and love is serious.

In a weird way, fashion, which is frivolous to the core, shouldn't be taken seriously, but thank God people do: it makes for great people-watching.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.