Best 1031 quotes in «serious quotes» category

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

I never looked at music as a serious ven­ture. There was very little encouragement from my family. I didn't have anybody to entertain, so it was hard to get motivated.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

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.

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

In many cases, we make sleep a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Sleep difficulties can turn into serious medical problems. For the vast majority of us, however, sleep difficulties are a lifestyle problem. Yet we tend to treat all our sleep-related woes the same way: with a pill.

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

In the restaurant it's much more serious.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.

In the first place, I don`t think [Donald] Trump has changed that much from what em. I never took him serious highway this [immigration policy].

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being 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.

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

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

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

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

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.

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

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.

I started, with three friends, this website called Crowdrise that's sort of the Facebook for personal philanthropy, a place where anybody can have a permanent microsite of their own to stage creative fundraising projects for the charities and causes that they care about. And we did it with serious intent but without any ambition.

Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?

Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered. 'No.' 'How do you know?' 'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.' 'Serious?' 'Serious. That isn't a line.' 'Kiss me,' she said. He did. Everywhere.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

I think crisis starts with the government of Puerto Rico. It has to take measures to solve the fiscal problems that it has, which are very serious. It's very basic: it's the same thing that is happening in Washington.

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.

I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.

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

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

Is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you're going to close the Internet, realize, America, what that entails. That entails getting rid of the First amendment, ok? It's no small feat.

I seek a diverse spectrum of roles. If I just was in a large-budget feature for a younger audience, then I want to find a smaller, more character-driven piece that might be for a more mature audience. Or if I'm playing a goofier character, then maybe I want to go play a serious, psychopathic character. But at the same time, it's usually a case-by-case basis where I'm judging the merit of a role by the script I'm given, and it usually has less to do with the larger framework and more to do with how the part personally appeals to me in that moment.