Best serious & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.”

“At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.”

Way Film Form Class Issues Comedy Serious Expression University Temples

Author:Tim Heidecker

“I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.”

Ifs Should Writing Believe Form I Believe Creative Serious Expression Holy Calling

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings.”

Humans Form Used Human Beings Serious Communication Complexes

Author:Gayle Pemberton

“Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.”

Form Novel Serious Conflict Difficulty Pursuit Crafts Discussion Conquest Preoccupation Felicity Thematic

Author:Ralph Ellison

“A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That's very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it's good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it's a wonderful source of story starters.”

“I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.”

Thinking Form Natural Serious Truth Is Strongest

Author:Charlyne Yi

“We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.”

Needs Has Beens Light Form Lost Powerful Effort Serious Historical Casts Nostalgia Impulse Inquiry Energizing

Author:T. J. Jackson Lears

“Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.”

Thinking Persons Form Sides Situation Comedy Serious Amusing Pompous Serious Person

Author:Peter Ustinov

“In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Mean Art Form Certain Turns Sports Enjoy Can Do Serious Police Cooking Sake France Officers Police Officer Basics Complication Cuisine French Cooking

Author:Julia Child

“If you're serious about singing or acting, which are two art forms that get repetitive, the way to keep the music fresh is to recognize that it is totally impossible for it to ever be the same, night after night. You open your mouth and you'd like a certain sound to come out of it, but it doesn't always come out exactly like you thought it was going to come out!”

Ifs Way Art Two Form Night Certain Sound Acting Impossible Serious Like You Singing Mouths Repetitive

Author:Mary Travers

“Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that a legitimate playwright could make a living on Broadway from writing decent plays.”

“But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.”

Form Clear Serious Pride Illusion Revenge Temptation Subtle Worldly

Book:Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis

Source: Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis

“The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. The act of enunciation - the forms and strategies of storytelling - are every bit as literarily serious as they are in poetry or other prose forms.”

Humans Form Joy Bits Boys Struggle Crazy Serious Ocean Majors Rivers Strategy Brave Memoir Storytelling Instance Prose

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.”

“Many people don't know that I experienced a blood clot caused by deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, which is when a blood clot forms in a deep vein in the body, often the leg or thigh. I'm fortunate that my DVT was diagnosed and treated before it led to something even more serious and that's why I encourage people to talk to their doctor if they think something is wrong. I've teamed up with Janssen Pharmaceuticals to raise awareness about blood clot prevention and treatment.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Body Form Blood Awareness Serious Doctors Raises Legs Treated Fortunate Treatment Veins Thighs Prevention Blood Clots

Author:Arnold Palmer

“We don't have a choice. A united democratic Eurasian continent welded together by common economic interests is our only hope and contribution to stability in the world. If we fail, I fear that Russia in its present form is in for the most serious of upheavals - the outcome of which is extremely unpredictable.”

Ifs World Together Form Choices Interest United Common Failing Economic Serious Democratic Russia Outcomes Contribution Stability Continents Unpredictable Upheaval

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.”

People Thinking Want Art Form Watches Serious Theater

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.”

Thinking Different Character Form Term Break Serious Drama Ambition Tradition Theater Narrative Requirements Realist I Love Music

Author:Tony Kushner

Serious Quotes

Related topics

Serious Quotes