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

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
Samuel P. Huntington

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
Emeril Lagasse

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
Steve Forbes

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
Benjamin Harrison

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry B. Adams

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.
Condoleezza Rice

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.
Paul von Hindenburg

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
Richard Gere

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
Dizzy Gillespie

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
Alan Rickman

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
Cyndi Lauper

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
Kim Dae Jung

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.
Johnny Vegas

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. Dick

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
Lester Bangs

First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.
Richard M. Daley