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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein

Serious Quotes

I hadn’t fully grasped how much of a risk I was taking. If anybody in my family found out what I was doing, there would be repercussions – I knew how vindictive they were – but there was no way to gauge how serious the consequences might be. I had to take Donald down.

– Mary Trump

Acknowledging helping The New York Times with its prize-winning investigation into the Donald Trump’s tax history.

There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, DC, as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!

– Donald Trump

Tweet hidden by Twitter, who said it broke rules over abusive content.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

– Horace

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

– H. P. Lovecraft

Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

– Harrison Ford

I try to take normal things – whether it’s a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast – and put a very weird twist on them.

– Harland Williams

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It’s carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it’s dirt in the works of a watch.

– Henry Flynt

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

– Grimes

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

– George Smoot

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don’t like to laugh about art.

– Gerhard Richter

It was really amazing. I mean, he’d never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

– Guy Clark

I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight.

– Georgette Mosbacher

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I’m this hunk.

– Harry Hamlin

There might be some serious fun in politics.

– Hunter S. Thompson

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

– George Gilder

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

– Hunter S. Thompson

I’m not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.

– Halston Sage

If I were a serious person, I’d probably have a real job.

– Harrison Ford

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

– Henry Flynt

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

– Helen Clark

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it’s usually violent and spectacular.

– Henry Spencer

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

– Helen Fielding

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

– Gavyn Davies

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

– Henry David Thoreau

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

– Herb Kohl

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

– Ian Mckellen

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It’s not a place for jingoistic cheering.

– Jeremy Corbyn

AIDS is such a scary thing and it’s also the kind of thing that you think won’t happen to you. It can happen to you and it’s deadly serious.

– Ice T

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, ‘Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?’

– Jacob Lew

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.

– Itzhak Perlman

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