One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations. – Ralph Merkle
I want the feuds to come back – there aren’t enough rap feuds anymore. I want a serious rap-off. – Phoebe Tonkin
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. – Samuel Butler
I’m not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don’t have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious. – Quvenzhane Wallis
I have made many serious statements – I just can’t remember any of them. I guess they mustn’t have been very important. – Oliver Reed
Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I’m recuperating now. I’m on a very bland diet. But, uh, I’m lucky, I was just lucky, that’s all. – Rube Goldberg
People who watch ‘Transporter’ are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on. – Olivier Megaton
There’s only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. – Shia LaBeouf
Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president’s sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur – I would say serious amateur – painter. – Roberta Smith
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do ‘Lady Macbeth’ and all sorts of serious things. It just didn’t happen. – Olivia Colman
I can’t do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That’d be fun. – Ruby Wax
In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants. – Rainn Wilson
I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can’t just switch it on and off. – Roger Rees
I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more. – Park Shin-hye
I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university. – Ren Ng
I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005. – Tim Fish
I had a serious childhood illness – sort of like spinal meningitis – that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn’t be insured because of a pre-existing condition. – Tammy Baldwin
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America. – Tariq Ali
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I’m glad that I did it. – Tom Glazer
When a conservative praises a liberal as ‘morally serious,’ he means that person is less liberal than most. – Timothy Noah
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. – Virginia Woolf
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries. – Yotam Ottolenghi
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books. – Travis Barker
I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren’t that many serious practitioners. – Wilbur Ross