Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
Donatella Versace

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
Taylor Caldwell

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni Morrison

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce Springsteen

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
Henrik Ibsen

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
Syd Barrett

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.
Steven Tyler

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
Neil Gaiman

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?
Rob Zombie

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Fred Rogers

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra Pound

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
George H. W. Bush

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
Tony Campolo