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When people were in serious trouble they went to a witch. — Terry Pratchett

If only stupid people could have the mere intelligence to shut up while discussing serious matter, the world would go along so much better ! — Laure Lacornette

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

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot

I need to go where people are serious about acting. — Meryl Streep

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious. — Jimmy Fallon

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious. — Charles Barkley

Unless you're really going to have a serious relationship, don't bring your kids into it. Don't show your child that people come and go. — Kelly Cutrone

There's nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the Christian life. — Sarah Arthur

There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party. — Kate Reardon

If you are not serious, people will sense it. — Bela Lugosi

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

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people — Daniel Webster

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

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking. — Marianne Williamson

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

Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable. — Roxane Gay

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality. — Lisa Loomer

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for doing so. — Julius Charles Hare

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

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people. — Manny Pacquiao

Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it. — Rick Warren

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. — Oscar Wilde

In fact, some people use humour so habitually that it is hard for them to remain serious for any length of time. — Margaret Hough

Serious people never stopped waging their war on joy and pleasure, and they were both relentless and tireless. — Steven Erikson

Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry — Victor Hugo

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. — Criss Jami

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

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay

Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.' — Craig Robinson

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control. — Paul Weyrich

Beware the humorless. People who are all too serious are missing a key aspect of intelligence, which is perspective! — Catherine Carrigan

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is. — David Platt

She had seen it when she was at home last summer - the hostility of comfortable, self-satisfied people toward serious effort. — Willa Cather

Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. — Margaret Atwood

Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun. — Ksenia Anske

I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example. — Mohnish Pabrai

Google is your friend, people. I'm serious. It's not a person, it's a collective group of people who want to help each other, and that's a good thing. — Elle Casey

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up. — Aaron Sorkin

I want to do drawings which touch some people ... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. — Vincent Van Gogh

My favorite people to have fun with are police officers 'cause they're so serious, you know. — Gabriel Iglesias

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window. — Neal Stephenson

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious. — Giacomo Casanova

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody. — John Brockman

There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious. — Katy Perry

Serious people are not easily distracted! — Israelmore Ayivor

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

The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did. — Wiley Drake

Wow. This girl has some serious issues in the people-skills department. She's sort of a bitch, even though she's making an effort not to be one. — Colleen Hoover

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business. — Steven Wright

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions. — John Hughes

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. — Thomas Jefferson

The Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.) — Amy Bloom

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed. — David Hare

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious. — Eminem

I think I've inspired a lot of people, and I'm one, if I get a letter and someone's in serious shape, I'll call them. I relate to these people. — Ron Santo

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. — Joseph Addison

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious? — Leonard Ravenhill

God is serious about holiness in the lives of His people, and He will discipline us to attain it. — Jerry Bridges

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious. — Calvin Trillin

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them. — Diplo

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite. — Megan Fox

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway. — Jose Gonzalez

I'm a lot less serious than people think. — Alan Rickman

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense. — Deidre Hall

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. — Ted Danson

A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am. — Claudia Schiffer

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

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make. — Herb Kohl

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films. — Kapil Sharma

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

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

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

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

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

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.' — Peyton Manning

For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people. — Francis Maude

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes. — Bruce Robinson

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life. — Mark Ruffalo

Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me. — Pauly Shore

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'? — Rob Zombie

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time! — Mikhail Baryshnikov

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head. — Jimmy Carter

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about. — Yahoo Serious

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important. — Evelyn Glennie

The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews. — Michel Templet

Nobody watched people that much, and for that long, except me, and I had serious emotional problems. — Dan Wells

Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you. — Assegid Habtewold

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun. — Alan Watts

The sight of so many agitated and serious people made Margaret smile, but she reflected that they were paid to be serious, and enjoyed being agitated. — E. M. Forster

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn. — John Cleese

My experience has been that most really serious creative people I know have very, very routine and not particularly glamorous work habits," Adams said — Mason Currey

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer. — Delta Goodrem

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying. — Kanye West

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey ... serious Jim Carrey though. — Logan Lerman

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to. — Rupert Grint