Top 1200 Serious Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious?

Everyone has seen the serious side of myself and sometimes I need to take a chill pill and have a good laugh. That's who I am as a person.

As far as the refugees are concerned, it's not that America doesn't want to accept refugees.t's that we may not be able to, because this is an issue we have to be 100 percent right on. If we allow 9,999 Syrian refugees into the United States, and all of them are good people, but we allow one person in who's an ISIS killer - we just get one person wrong, we've got a serious problem.

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.

I always try to be ironistic in everything I do. I love people who understand humor and who live through humor. So, of course, I was not too serious covering such things as Motörhead or "Black Magic Woman" by Santana. But I was serious enough about Led Zeppelin and the Celtic song "Wild Mountain Thyme." In my life, serious and humor are always together.

Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson has done a major favor for serious faith, both Jewish and Christian, in America. He has made it "cool" to be religious, but in so doing he has unleashed the hatred of secular America against himself personally, against his work and against his family. God bless him.

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

When I began to rap, I wasn't taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it's getting serious.

My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

When a game comes around, that's the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.

I have serious, serious problems with personas - with unauthentic individuals.

I guess what Kenny Omega is, even though the image is something that was given to me by New Japan and then tweaked by me, it's just me, Tyson Smith. Yeah, that's me, just a guy that likes to joke around when he doesn't have to be serious. And when he has to be serious, he's really serious!

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

Guru Dutt was a serious person, yes. He used to be very impatient, not with the artistes, but with the technicians - especially the camera crew.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

It raises several serious questions. For example, how can there possibly be more than one person as awesome as me?

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

I don't really like something serious depicted in a serious way; that's not my style.

Zidane is a respectful person, he knows what he wants and we are there to obey and to the best we can. He has his sense of humor, but in the training sessions we must be serious.

I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

For me, personally, I think the serious gamers - the guys who know the levels - play Xbox, and people who are just good at the game play PS3. I play PS3 because I'm not a serious, serious gamer like that. But when I play the Xbox, the standard is so much higher.

The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger's move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person.

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

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

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

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

I'm very serious about my career. If someone feels that I carry a serious heroine tag, so be it.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

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

I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He's this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.

I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pink Floyd... if the Floyd ever did serious music, which I seriously doubt.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

I have been a funny kid growing up but every one thought I was a serious person. I think it has to do with the choice of my films such as 'Zakhm,' 'Kalyug' and 'Traffic Signal.'

I'm a person with a ton of energy who likes to scream and party and rock out. And there are other sides of me that are real serious.

I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.

We have to take every game serious. And when I say serious, I mean doing the right things, practicing good habits.

For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

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