Serious Quotes

• Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Hands
  • Views

• When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Laughing
  • Scene
  • Atonement

• Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious.

  

  Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  • Mean
  • Universe
  • Mysterious

• There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes that wall and basically says, 'Self-promote or die.' And that is a bad head for any sort of artist to be forced into.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Technology

• Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.

  

  Wesley Clark
  • Trust
  • Public
  • Claims

• I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

  

  Mena Suvari
  • Process
  • Public
  • Awareness

• This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Study
  • Games
  • Classic

• I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

  

  Carter Heyward
  • Abortion
  • Sacred
  • Occasions

• We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing away the key' does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • People
  • Serious
  • Safety

• If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Moving

• There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. . . I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • People
  • Today
  • Serious

• I only auditioned at four schools. I started performing and studying when I was in middle school, and then as I got into high school, it just got more serious. I feel like it became more of a vocation. It became clear to me at that point that I wanted to pursue it.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • School
  • High
  • Four

• I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Serious

• I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade.

  

  William Eckhardt
  • Important
  • Missing
  • Point

• The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.

  

  Carlo Blasis
  • Art
  • Difficult
  • Dancing

• But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Running
  • Waiting
  • Misconduct

• I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • People
  • Character
  • Energy

• When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • Good
  • Music
  • Real

• I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Practice

• It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.

  

  George Lee Butler
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Nuclear

• Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Opinion
  • Serious

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