#seriousness

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel. ↗

— Roman Payne

#growth #hard-times #hardship #jail #jailbird

Seriousness is for fools and poor destitute families who have lived their entire lives on spam. ↗

— Jason Krumbine

#seriousness #family

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 when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#angry #black #could #fire #i

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. ↗

— Brian Eno

#even #i #i do #known #musician

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness. ↗

— Anthea Turner

#business #like #run #same #seriousness

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#refuge #seriousness #shallow

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ↗

— Heraclitus

#child #himself #man #most #nearly

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#difficult #family #great #me #raised