Quotes About Seriousness

I think that there's always a time to be tongue-in-cheek, and there's always time for humor, but there's a time to be serious and a time for emotional content.

I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It's a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

If you don't go into a congressional hearing thoroughly prepared, then you should bring a toothbrush, because you're going to be there a while.

You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

To me, everything is a joke in MMA when it comes to serious topics because you can't really talk seriously about anything in our business.

I totally have the ability to laugh at myself. I don't think one should take oneself seriously, ever. As long as you are not hurting my sentiments by revealing personal details or talking badly about my family, I'm absolutely fine.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

He steepled his fingers in monkish solemnity. "You cannot hide from Fate, my son." Sarah grunted. "People don't have fates." "No: fates have people," Jet said, suddenly serious.

Christendom seems unprepared for people who take the gospel that seriously.

Don't take life as a ADVANTAGE take it SERIOUSLY because it's not a game)

Russell Crowe is very committed at getting it right but at the same time, he likes to have fun.

If you have been told that you are late and unreliable more than once, then not only do you lack punctuality, but you also lack decency and seriousness, which is certainly very annoying.

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

This is all a joke to you, is it not? . . . It is not a joke. Your whole future happiness is at stake.

The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.

Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you, everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable—and unimportant?

It's time to quit fucking around, don't you know that? When you start to see colored footprints on the sidewalk, it's time to quit fucking around and go to the doctor.

In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true.