Serious Quotes - Page 8

• Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

  John Cleese

  People, Solemn

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• Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fashion, Two, Mind

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• You ever watch a football game and get totally into it? Why? It's not a real battle. It's just a game somebody made up. So how can you take it seriously? Or, you ever see a movie that made your heart about jump out of your chest? Or one that made you cry? Why? It wasn't real. You ever look at a photo of food that made your mouth water? Why? You can't eat the picture. . . . . . Same thing with water towers and God. I don't have to be a believer to be serious about my religion.

  Pete Hautman

  Football, Real, Heart

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• White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.

  E. Lockhart

  Sweet, Dark, White

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• This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Father, Taken

  "This Is the Work of the Master". Ensign magazine, p. 71, May 1995.

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• Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

  Douglas Adams

  Matter, Way, Power Of Words

  Douglas Adams (2013). “Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Friendship, Smart, Reading

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• Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck.

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Ivy, Necks

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• Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

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• I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mistake, Fiction, Sci Fi

  "Science Fiction". The New York Times Book Review, September 5, 1965.

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• Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Funny, Powerful, Naps

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sublime, Principles, Affection

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.90, Booklassic

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• What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.

  Italo Calvino

  Disappointment, Believe, Book

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.4, Random House

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

  Don DeLillo

  Easy, Hard

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• Hoyt was by himself right under one of the portable lights rigged up for the occasion. He had his hands thrust in his pockets, and he looked more serious than I’d ever seen him. There was something strange about the sight, and after a second I figured out why. It was one of the few times I’d ever seen Hoyt alone.

  Charlaine Harris

  Light, Sight, Hands

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “True Blood Omnibus III: All Together Dead, From Dead to Worse, Dead and Gone”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Daughter, Class, Different

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• There is nothing serious in Mortality

  William Shakespeare

  Mortality

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

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• There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Stupidity, Quality

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.77, Macmillan

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• You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?" I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were in the depths of despair?" No, I didn't." Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, Feelings, Despair

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.26, e-artnow

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• Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

  Anne Frank

  Kids, Forever, Missing

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.111, Hamilton Books

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• Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap.

  Garth Nix

  Morning, Naps, Waiting

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.249, Hot Key Books

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• You can’t be serious,” Eve said. “Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I’ve seen the movies.” "Eve,” Michael said. “Horror movies are not documentaries.

  Rachel Caine

  People, Evil, Guy

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.73, Penguin

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• Life is serious. (Valerius) No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. (Tabitha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Adventure, Scary, Sometimes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize The Night”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if we allow ourselves to do something badly we might in time become quite good at it. Perfectionism measures our beginner's work against the finished work of masters. Perfectionism thrives on comparison and competition. It doesn't know how to say, "Good try," or "Job well done." The critic does not believe in creative glee--or any glee at all, for that matter. No, perfectionism is a serious matter.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Believe, Practice

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• His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious. "Nothing. I just hadn't realised before. Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?" Once the words slipped out, I worried that he might take my implusive observation the wrong way. But Jacob rolled his eyes. "You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?" "I'm serious." Well, then, thanks. Sort of." I grinned. "You're sort of welcome.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Jealous, Eye

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