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  • We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

    Brother   Oxygen   Band  
    "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965.
  • There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

  • The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.

    Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.36, SPCK
  • Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

    Men   Knights   Superhero  
    "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.
  • I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

    Funny   Humor   Ideas  
    John Mortimer (2010). “CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE”, p.241, Penguin UK
  • The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

  • Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people

    Fighting   Men   People  
  • At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

    School   Class   World  
    Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
  • The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

    Men   Air   Voice  
  • I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

    Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.112, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy—it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

  • There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

    Men   Brave   Coward  
  • An annuity is a very serious business.

    Sense and Sensibility vol. 1, ch. 2 (1811)
  • Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.

    Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.188, Courier Corporation
  • Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

    Poul Anderson (2015). “Fire Time”, p.27, Open Road Media
  • Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

    Art   Ideas   Australia  
    Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”
  • This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.

  • The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, "I'm not going to be treated like a factory," because that's never the way it was done before. You're talking about a major label, we're talking about serious business; you're not an artist anymore, you're a business, you have to work in terms of product, you have to release a product, and I don't really think that way at all.

    "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.
  • Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

    Life   Pain   Sacrifice  
  • Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

    Fun   Writing   Joy  
  • I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

    Philosophy   Real   Needs  
    Source: screenrant.com
  • Comedy is a serious business. It's frustrating when I can't find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don't make them laugh, I get very disappointed in myself. You don't really have a live audience, so you just depend on the crew to let you know if you're doing something funny.

    "Allison Janney Interview MR. SUNSHINE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 9, 2011.
  • I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

    Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing
  • This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.

    Girl   Running   Silly  
  • Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for "down here" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

    Country   Games   Joy  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

    Ideas   Poetry   Feelings  
    Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Good design is serious business.

  • Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

    Walter Scott (1845). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.376
  • Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

    Girl   Teenage   Thinking  
    "Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 6, 2010.
  • British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country.

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