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Quotes About Serious

It was a vow, a piece of a chant, their scripture, something they took so seriously that saying it aloud embarrassed them.
~ Holly Black
Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces. Their busy little bottoms strutting into the school in their tight gym gear. Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.
~ Liane Moriarty
anything to do with their lives? "You and Nick are in the middle of a custody battle," said Elisabeth. "It's really serious." Custody battle. It sounded like "custardy" battle. Alice imagined herself and Nick flinging spoonfuls of sweet yellow custard at each other, laughing and shrieking and licking it off afterward.
~ Liane Moriarty
The teacher called out, "Could all the parents and children listen up for a moment? We've had such a lovely morning, but we just need to have a little chat about something. It's a little bit serious." The teacher's dimples quivered in her cheeks, as if she were trying to put them away for a more appropriate time.
~ Liane Moriarty
There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Parenting, when it is pursued seriously and thoughtfully, is not only life's most important career, but its most joyful and fulfilling career.
~ Unknown
Rebound guys are the best." "They are?" "They never even think of getting serious, because everyone knows you don't jump into a relationship right after a divorce. They just want to be your welcome wagon when you start having sex again. It's your time to experiment, girl!" "The world is my petri dish," I said, raising my drink.
~ Lisa Kleypas
There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.
~ Maurice Baring
The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.
~ Michael Keaton
I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
~ Rahm Emanuel
Wrestling went from being sometimes comical to very serious, and there was a lot of depth regarding the vastness in which people performed.
~ Mark Henry
I wanted to give people songs like 'Wait a Minute' and 'Formal Invite' for the club, and I also wanted to get real serious and show them my versatility.
~ Ray J
was a lean, unsmiling man, a dusting of short gray hair on his head.
~ Jeffery Deaver
Zack?" Anthony's voice was suddenly serious. "You know, it's not a great idea to seduce a woman you're protecting. All kidding aside, do you want me to send Matthews over?" "Who?" "Junior." "I will shoot him on sight," Zack said and hung up so he could follow Lucy into the kitchen.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning, but for children play is serious learning." Mr. Rogers
~ Unknown
What is your preference? She felt nearly sick asking this question. My preference is to pack you in my suitcase,but those TSA people are so picky,and there's some kind of stupid regulation about human trafficing and- Justin. This is serious.
~ Jessica Park
Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. They all have pet names.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.
~ Michael Sheen
Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.
~ Miranda Otto
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.
~ Terry Pratchett
The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.
~ Timothy Bottoms
I used to live in Rajouri Garden. I was a shy child, dutiful to parents, serious in studies but happier on the sports ground.
~ Priyanshu Chatterjee
I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I'm having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously.
~ Mayer Hawthorne