1309 Serious Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk. James McBride

Jazz Coming Lot Up Stand Serious Players Funk

The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous. James P. Carse

Life Finite Joyous Infinite Serious Play

It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it. James Patterson

I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious. James Tate

Love You Starts Out Find Seemingly Entirely Something Poem Take Instance Know Until Go Beforehand End Very Frivolous Stake Then Serious Grows Gravity Inconsequential

Jackie Berman, a 64-year-old widow and former special education teacher from Chicago, enrolled in Obamacare. She really needed coverage after sustaining serious injuries from being hit by a car. Now Jackie gets the care she needs at an affordable rate. Jan Schakowsky

Education Teacher Needs Car Care Enrolled Obamacare Rate She Coverage Chicago Hit Affordable Jackie Gets Being After Sustaining Former Really Special Special Education Serious Now Injuries Widow Needed

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants. Jane Pauley

Work Depression Me You Enough Guess Worse Months Some Had Call Becoming Being Mild Serious Keep Treated

I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face. Jane Seymour

Face Pretty Pretty Face Rather Than Wanted Serious Actress

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy. Jann Wenner

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes. Jason Chaffetz

Problems Oppose Deficit Solving Debt While Taxes Serious Raising Raising Taxes

We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew. Jason Kander

Service Family Me Prayer Book First Thanks Way Kind City Temple Opened Sponsorship Identity Said Real Were Up Personal Personal Identity Really Kansas Kansas City Page Moment Connected Serious Jew

I'm sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there's the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone's grass is greener. Jason Momoa

Funny Seriously Trouble Action Grass Funny Guy Everyone Guy He Taken Stuff Sure Always Greener Wants Who Serious Actor Plays

With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process as well as the serious aspects I write about. Jay Asher

People Writing Speak School Books Visits About Write Writing Process Talk Also Well Read Traditional Get Process Aspects Who Serious

I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me? Jay Asher

Love Christmas Me Book Love Story Had Written Read Dealt Issues Going Anybody Want Story Really Serious Serious Issues

I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate. Jay Griffiths

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Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. Jean Hanff Korelitz

Work Lie Care Pretend About Writers Colossal Serious Film Adaptation

I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine. Jean Pigozzi

Suits Fine Wear Never Because Go Very Office Serious

I always wanted to be a serious journalist. Jeannette Walls

Journalist Always Wanted Serious

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. Jeff Goodell

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