Serious Business Quotes

• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Laughter, Creativity

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Life, Pain, Sacrifice

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• Joy is the serious business of heaven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Marriage, Joy

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

  Theognis of Megara

  Business, Men, Cooking

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• Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

  Lin Yutang

  Life, Too Short, Life Is Too Short

  Yutang Lin (1936). “The Little critic: essays, satires and sketches on China (first series: 1930-1932)”

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• I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

  Christoph Waltz

  Philosophy, Real, Needs

  Source: screenrant.com

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• There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

  K.J. Parker

  Men, Brave, Coward

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• There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

  Ossie Davis

  Hard Work, Long, Secret

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• Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive.

  Ronald Graham

  Education, Fun, Math

  Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Toys, Hours

  Walter Scott (1845). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.376

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• Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

  Isaac Asimov

  Kids, Remember, Internet

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• Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, People

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• Russia committed an act of aggression in Ukraine, and that's the first time since 1945 a European country has seized the territory of another European country. That's serious business. They started a war with their neighbor. Their troops as well as the separatists funded and controlled by Russia are killing people just about every day.

  Daniel Fried

  Country, War, Ukraine

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

  Rachel Wade

  Taken, Relaxation, Fiction

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• Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  School, Mark, Very Good

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• Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Writing, Joy

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• Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

  Dennis Overbye

  Heart, Jewels, Sifting

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• Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

  Robin Boyd

  Art, Ideas, Australia

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.

  John Bachar

  Serious

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• The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

  Sam Hughes

  Boys, Play, Devil

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• Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

  Steven Morrissey

  Simple, Laughing, Life Is

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• I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Husband, War, Rose

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

  Steven Wright

  People, Laughing, Stuff

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• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

  "Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 6, 2010.

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• Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Men, Knights, Superhero

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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