Quotes About Seriousness

People don't always take us seriously," she continued. "People come to HorrorLand and think it's all a big joke. People laugh at the signs around the park. They laugh at the rides and attractions.

The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.

Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to—the fact that you say that it's over, or the fact that you say it's a game. It's only over when one of us keeps the notebook for good. It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.   Only

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

the more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot." In

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

I have done some serious roles earlier and there have been some brilliant comedy roles in my career as well.

I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.

If we don't see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creating those changes. We cannot a!ord to entertain superficial changes any more. The changes we need should be deep, real, and thorough.

Etienne, didn't worry enough, Jules thought in despair. Ever since childhood it had been Jules who was the serious one, the one who had to accept the responsibility while Etienne ambled along through life with endearing blitheness. "You arranged for the men to be waiting at the church?" "Of course." "And you told them nothing?" "Only that they would be paid well for the work. And I parked the motorboat

Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

Whatever the reasons, reading somehow awakens something in a kid's life that makes them take their own life more seriously and other people's lives more seriously.

He can make me laugh when all I want to do is cry. He can make me see the good in a situation when all I see is the bad. He knows when life should be taken seriously — and when it shouldn't. He's delightful and funny and clever — and not afraid to make a total cake of himself."

For God's sake, Maeve!

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

Viewers are used to seeing us at our sternest and most serious on 'The Chase,' so it might be a bit of a shock when we let our hair down.

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

I just don't believe in joking about violence anymore.

Violence is not funny.

By employing a certain sense of humor, you essentially get more serious about things and show conflict more effectively than if you were overly dramatic or only violent because that's a one-way approach that just forces audiences to watch something appalling.

In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.

Lewis was unique in the academia of his day for championing (along with his good friend, J. R. R. Tolkien) children's literature and fantasy novels as serious genres deserving serious consideration.

A filosofia começa no momento em que cessa o divertimento.

Whoever claims to have understood everything with hindsight cannot be taken seriously.