Serious Things Quotes & Sayings
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We laughed at some things because we had grown so much older; we were serious about others because we were still so young. —
Beryl Markham

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time. —
Maria Bamford

I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some
serious things —
Selena

But you were concerned about making sure things, you know, didn't get serious."
"Yeah, because I'm an idiot. —
Robyn Carr

Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process. —
Adel Al-Jubeir

That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light? —
Howard Jacobson

Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about. —
Niels Bohr

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music. —
TobyMac

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

One must speak about
serious things seriously. —
Anton Chekhov

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious. —
Margaret Geller

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated ... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious ... love life. —
Maya Angelou

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of
serious things. It just didn't happen. —
Olivia Colman

Writes very good books; about very bad things. —
Christian Cipollini

I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested. —
Tom Rush

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there. —
Earl King

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear. —
William S. Burroughs

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

Funny how in really serious moments people always say the stupidest things. —
Lauren Oliver

I did all the
serious things that serious people do. The complacent face. The folded hands. The stiff spine. Check, check, double check. —
Krista Ritchie

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world. —
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most
serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing. —
Winston Churchill

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. —
Shia Labeouf

A good team needs three things: the right people, the right spirit, and a couple inside jokes. —
VanillaCreamPie8888

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done. —
Rob Portman
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. —
Plato

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. —
Niels Bohr

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it. —
Jody Hill

Everything can be made fun of. The most
serious things are ripe for making fun of them. —
Jim Carrey

Yet compared with the
serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this. —
Harold Russell

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

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise. —
George Orwell

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more
serious things —
John Schuerholz

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things. —
Helen Keller

She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it. —
Graham Greene

I never intended to only do dark,
serious things. —
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. —
Rahm Emanuel

You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences. —
Auliq Ice

I only joke about really
serious things, —
Ali Smith

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have. —
Nicholas Sparks

There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them. —
Niels Bohr

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

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

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or
serious things. Now we have interesting things. —
Gerhard Richter

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

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. —
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. —
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

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

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

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them. —
John Ashcroft

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone. —
E. M. Forster

I have
serious things to do now. I have a living to give away. —
George Eliot

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half. —
Christian Lacroix

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

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious. —
Robert Plant

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

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined.
Serious things to be thingied. —
Louise Rennison

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God. —
Martha Beck