However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. – Bjarne Stroustrup
I’m not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up. – Albert Oehlen
The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it’s a serious thing – how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater? – Peter Jackson
You’re talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year. – Neil Abercrombie
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. – Carla Bley
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs. – Dolly Parton
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of ‘the Haves’ over the human rights of ‘the Have Nots’ is inevitably called into serious question. – David Korten
We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade. – Michael Nutter
I don’t want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. – Danny Boyle
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office. – David Cone
Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that. – Nic Pizzolatto
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. – George C. Marshall
The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients. – Dana Boente
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. – Ernest Hemingway
Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities. – Elliott Carter
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. – Eudora Welty
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. – George McGovern
Perhaps I’m particularly serious, because I’m not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I’m doing. – Daniel Day-Lewis
I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don’t go running or hard hiking. – Maria Semple
If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I’ve got to have some kind of jovial things in there. – Earl King