Serious Quotes
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I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.
Will Smith
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When a patient tells a doctor that every symptom is the most horrible ever - and the physical exam and labs are normal - we often suspect something psychological is going on. The symptoms aren't fake. They're physical manifestations of anxiety, depression, and stress. So while I'm always on the lookout for a serious underlying disease.
Danielle Ofri
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Ralph Nader
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
Oliver Reed
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Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.
Dana Boente
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Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.
Christopher Walken
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Is it that serious?
Chen Shui-bian
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
Ma Jun
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But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.
James Meade Kutless
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner
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I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
Toni Braxton
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I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. She was a very nice person, but she had a little bit of a tendency toward melodrama... Her response was to take the key to my apartment off of her key chain and hand it back to me.
Kenneth Lonergan
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
Twyla Tharp
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I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.
David Cross
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
Barbara Demick
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It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
Adam Cohen
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The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
Walter Gropius
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To play an older woman, 'til the look is not affected, it is never a problem for me. To play a matured character, it's different. You get to learn so much. It becomes more serious.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
Uzo Aduba
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It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.
Doug Davidson
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
Ja Rule
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I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.
Taylor Lautner
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia