Quotes About Seriousness

It might be funny when you get hit by a car, but not when you get run over by one.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Y dijo: ¿sabes por qué me llaman Chistoso? Porque nunca estoy pa bromas.

I wasn't going to let him hurt me." I said, "If I thought he was going to hurt you, I'd be disposing of his body. I don't fuck around, either.

This was no time to be an idiot.

What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Gli uomini si vestono di nero e di grigio. Qualcuno osa con colori autunnali e camicie variopinte. E' il problema degli uomini: vogliono essere presi sul serio, quindi pensano di dover far credere che sono privi di fantasia.

Marriage is too important to be treated like a love affair

You want us to take on a job about funny books?" "They're graphic novels," Hardison said in a grave tone. "And it's a serious art form. They're the most vibrant format for modern literature. And—and they make freaking great movies. I mean, have you seen The Avengers ?

It is a great affront to God to jest with sacred things, particularly to make sport with the word and ordinances of God, or to treat them with lightness

The feeling of the uselessness of what I am doing is linked to this other feeling that nothing is more serious.

What does a woman have to do to be seen as a serious person?" "Be a man, I guess," Ethan said...

Soon, she and the rest of them would be ironic much of the time, unable to answer an innocent question without giving their words a snide little adjustment. Fairly soon after that, the snideness would soften, the irony would be mixed in with seriousness, and the years would shorten and fly.

It was impossible to look out on the city from high up without thinking for a second of 9/11, even nine years later. Any overarching view of the city seemed to call for a brief, noble hush. Smokestacks steamed; lights stuttered; there was movement along the grid. The quiet moment now wasn't unpleasurable. It was just a moment of seriousness, born in something terrible, but now uncoupled from it.

Her letters were still bubbled and fat and juvenile, creating a disconnect between the content of what she was writing and the way she wrote it. Who would even take it seriously?

Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!

He was very solemn; she wasn't. Phaedra couldn't stop smiling.

I could do with a little more fun and a bit less being precious. It isn't all fun, being a princess. In fact, a lot of it is pretty grim.

He wasn't afraid of being laughed at—but he wasn't being comical