Quotes About Seriousness

The first condition for comedy is that if you laugh at your own jokes, others won't laugh. You have to say something funny very seriously.

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.

I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.

A symphony is no joke.

You cant hurry love. I guess you cant hurry divorce either! Neither should be treated lightly.

In a laughing mirror-image of the seriousness with which the rest of the world is obsessed with Progress, Coney Island attacks the problem of Pleasure, often with the same technological means.

Death is not a joke.

If you're worried about your very life, the last thing you want is small talk.

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies,) I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

However, two nationalities in particular avoid jokes and other forms of humor during the actual business sessions. Germans find it out of place during negotiations. Business is serious and should be treated as such, without irrelevant stories or distractions. If you do not concentrate on the issue, you are not showing respect to your interlocutor.

To take the Scriptures seriously is not to take them literally. Literalism is invariably the lowest and least level of meaning. Most

It is true I was too serious. But perhaps the other children, and even the teachers, were not serious enough. The spider's silk lines of chance that can break and wash out from beneath you one or more of your cornerstones, toppling you into heartache and confusion, estrangement. Perhaps I was too aware of the tenuousness (and hence the beauty) of one's foundations, but I often thought others around me were not enough aware.

No, no, I never mess around.

Theo wondered if those people who were destined to die young had some kind of premonition of the shortness of the hours and that gave their life an intensity, a seriousness like a shadow.

The nicest thing you did was to take me seriously when a lot of people wouldn't have, but not too seriously, which was just right.

We're going to be leaving here soon. It's not like a game any more. We've got to think carefully.

Estas elecciones son demasiado importantes para que se decidan con un puñado de burlas.

She loved his seriousness. Most men, even quite clever ones, became silly when they talked to women. Walter spoke to her just as intelligently as he spoke to Robert or Fitz, and—even more unusually—he listened to her answers.

You need to have a life. Have fun. Then ruin it by having a serious relationship