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Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake. — Elie Wiesel

Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious. — Kevin Barry

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure. — Colm Toibin

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was. — Sheila Heti

I should far rather be drunk than eaten, Miss Lancaster," Ferus said in a serious tone. "As should we all. Very well, that's settled. — Jim Butcher

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. — James S. Coleman

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. — Twyla Tharp

Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation. — Robert M. Pirsig

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. — Jules Verne

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role. — Loni Anderson

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15. — Lee Trevino

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. — Jessica Brown Findlay

As a star you never know when people are really serious. — Dirk Nowitzki

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force. — Gloria Steinem

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist. — Johnny Carson

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption. — Li Jinhua

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. — George Bernard Shaw

Depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer. — William Styron

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker. — Katy Lederer

Seen my grandfather, who'd always seemed so old and serious in all of his photos, whooping and hollering as he surfed a fifty-foot wave. — Alyson Noel

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen. — Oscar Wilde

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor. — W. H. Auden

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me. — Dee Dee Ramone

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. — Gene Tierney

He was as serious as a copperhead in a wood stack. His — Beth Macy

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. — Peter F. Drucker

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike,
we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem. — Tarthang Tulku

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. — Allan Bloom

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

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in. — Jeff Lindsay

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most. — Timothy Noah

A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we've seen with the antivaccination movement. — Emily Matchar

That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing. — Sean O'Casey

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. — Susanne Katherina Langer

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time. — Maria Sharapova

Liv sagged against the wall. Their son was kidnapped and trained as a sex slave. Jesus, they were in serious fucking denial about his captivity. — Pepper Winters

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature — Julio Cortazar

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force. — Brit Hume

Are you serious?"

"As an armadillo in a laundry mat — Penny Reid

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. — Mary Astell

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor. — Jon Pertwee

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?' — Jacob Lew

As a leader he was much too serious by half, a trait she'd seen diminish even the best leaders' abilities. — K.F. Breene

Life is as serious a thing as death. — Philip James Bailey

I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit. — Peter Dinklage

We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place. — Astro Teller

I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them. — Harland Williams

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage. — Jonathan Franzen

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy! — Sam Hughes

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires. — Albert Einstein

Am I cured?"
"No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness. — Paulo Coelho

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. — Umberto Eco

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against. — Tom Hodgkinson

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death. — Cassandra Clare

I had gone to Europe ... to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American. — Marian Anderson

When you've been falsely accused of serious crimes as often I have, you learn to recognize the oncoming inevitability of the next one. — David A. McIntee

At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious. — Saina Nehwal

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning. — Lee Child

She would see that in England, for reasons unknown, a woman can simultaneously be cute as a bug's ear, a serious rose gardener, and a nymphomaniac. — Nell Zink

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. — William Collins

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. — Andy Summers

I'm as serious as a heart attack. — Samuel L. Jackson

Janet's a serious racer with some good race-car stuff. She can get the job done. I respect her as a racer. — Neil Bonnett

Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life. — Leonard Jacobson

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation. — Maureen Johnson

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist. — Joseph DeRisi

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that. — Thom Mayne

I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun. — Bruno Mars

Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn. — Tzipi Livni

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds. — Jean Liedloff

To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention. — Lionel Shriver

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. — Confucius

They but appear a solemn People, - worshipping Laughter, rather, as a serious, indeed holy, Force in Nature, never to be invok'd idly. — Thomas Pynchon

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work. — Charles E. Burchfield

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority. — William Friedkin

As you get older, you get a bit more serious. — Bryan Ferry

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. — James Thurber

Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses do. — A.P.

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. — Arthur Miller

Twitter is a serious writing distraction.
As are grapefruits.
The two have nothing else in common. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter. — Dave Barry

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. — Charles Lamb

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff. — Henry A. Kissinger

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. — Don Herold

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome. — Jules Verne

That's the Irish all over
they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer. — Tom Jones

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have. — Russell Brand

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music. — Peter Hammill

When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal. — James Henry Breasted

Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem. — Patrick Demarchelier

I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious. — Martin Henderson

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. — Werner Herzog

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes. — John C. Bogle

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas. — Roberta Flack