#serious

Serious sport is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#serious #shooting #war

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is in their capacity to escalate. ↗

— Marcus Zusak

#destruction #humanity #serious #truth #death

What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#seriousness #dreams

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business. ↗

— Peter Scott

#battalion #being #being there #business #everybody

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#because #doing #especially #experience #fun

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#person #seriously #take

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious ↗

— Harry Toh Jun Shen

#life #sad #serious #life

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humor #humour #language #seriousness #men

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.. ↗

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

#seriousness #perception

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

#day #especially #i #i think #living