Quotes by Serious Things I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing. Aldo Leopold serious-things self adventure Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime. Angela Davis black-history-month serious-things struggle One must speak about serious things seriously. Anton Chekhov serious-things serious ideas I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in. Antonio Banderas serious-things world thinking It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. C. S. Lewis serious-things one-day would-be and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed. C. S. Lewis serious-things truthful lying A joke's a very serious thing. Charles Churchill serious-things serious humor Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. Charles Schumer serious-things things-to-do giving-up There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began. Daniel Levin Becker serious-things mother jobs 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 serious-things intimate believe Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things. Elizabeth Barrett Browning serious-things giving believe I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world. Jacques Yves Cousteau serious-things play thinking Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them. Jim Carrey serious-things made fun I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. John McGahern serious-things writing thinking Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied. Louise Rennison still-life serious-things exam They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla? Lucy Maud Montgomery serious-things growing-up thinking 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 serious-things and-love laughing it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world. Mary Oliver serious-things broken morning Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Oscar Wilde serious-person serious-things art Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any. Patricia Wentworth serious-things money serious 12»