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Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years. — David Suzuki

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. — Horace

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset. — Mike Birbiglia

The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling.
- Serious Men — Manu Joseph

He was a quiet man, not lonely and not shy, but cerebral and serious. — John Grisham

If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, ... let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second. — Noam Chomsky

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. — Louise Mensch

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church. — Saint Augustine

I've become a much more serious young insect. — Andrew Denton

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin. — Madeleine M. Kunin

The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable. — Wolfgang Pauli

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. — Rachel Kushner

People will know you're serious when you produce. — Muhammad Ali

took something serious away from it. I told myself I would never get so deep into my cups that I wouldn't be able to play. — Duff McKagan

Everyone should smile. Life really isn't that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process. — Arian Foster

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator. — Pope Paul VI

My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie. — Isabel Gillies

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. — Danny Boyle

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. — Michel De Montaigne

I'm serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope. — Vicki Covington

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. — Nicholas Butler

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour. — Yahoo Serious

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk. — Harry Hamlin

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose
to make people laugh. — W.C. Fields

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any. — Patricia Wentworth

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion. — Jeanloup Sieff

I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose. — Oscar Wilde

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel. — John Kessel

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown. — Rose Byrne

I think the serious roles impact people the most. — Rochelle Aytes

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek

Your eyes may mislead you sometimes. So don't be serious in observing, listen to your heart at times when you are confused. — Giridhar Alwar

I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious. — John Cleese

Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor. — Sean William Scott

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability. — Peter J. Carroll

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. — Werner Heisenberg

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. — Helen Fielding

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

A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment. — Agatha Christie

I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs. — Katarina Witt

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. — Frank Woolley

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

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess

Hey, I'm serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have? — Adam Dunn

There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit. — Amber Sparks

no serious book can now be sure of surviving. — Sigmund Freud

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun. — Mitt Romney

I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation. — William Walker

I will take a serious approach to a subject usually treated lightly, which is a nerdy thing to do. — Benjamin Nugent

The most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens. — David Quammen

In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl. — Pete Townshend

Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events. — Daniel Kahneman

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!' — Queen Latifah

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security. — Barack Obama

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. — Sigmund Freud

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious. — Giorgio Moroder

To remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn't have to be so serious all the time. — Kurt Vonnegut

I'm very serious about acting. — Victor Garber

How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens. — Dawn Powell

In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious. — Frederick Lenz

I suppose one must be serious sometimes. — Oscar Wilde

I've loved you forever." His eyes were dark and serious.
"I love you too. — Elizabeth Finn

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be. — Cheryl Hines

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds. — Ken Kercheval

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. — Charles Kennedy

Happiness is an angel with a serious face — Amedeo Modigliani

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke. — Fred Durst

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. — Karl Abraham

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown. — Martin Luther

Jesus, he wasn't a dick, he was an asshole and he had some serious fucking work to do. "She — Kristen Ashley

Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody. — Chelsea Handler

Life is always so serious. We all need to stop for a minute, make faces at ourselves, and laugh. I — Alex Grayson

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. — Chuck Schumer

It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh. — Betty White

Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow. — John Steinbeck

Boxing is always serious. — Juan Manuel Marquez

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change. — Gillian Jacobs

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

Camels are snobbish
and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic
even murderous.
Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore

Truth, like love, is never absolute. — E. Lynn Harris

[F]ew people have never hurt anyone or been guilty of any serious lapse [...] — Murasaki Shikibu

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. — Ralph Nader

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious. — Nick Mason

Blondes in black jeans have always been a serious problem for me. But I'm not exactly looking for a solution. — Daniel Cubias

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication. — Donna Summer

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. — Cyndi Lauper

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work. — David Remnick

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits. — Jay McInerney

Need to go chase the wind for a while, you are too serious. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. — Will Rogers

He just likes to have fun, Papa."
"That's not a quality that gets you far in life. — Adriana Trigiani

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else. — Steven Yeun

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth. — Bob Hoskins

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life. — John Mayer

What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan