“Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.” Our LivesSeriousEndeavorPreparingAstronaut Author:Ellen Ochoa
“By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.” ThinkingGivingChildrenPrayerOur LivesAtheismProduceSeriousPositive AtheismCharmCashMagnificentJewels Book:An American Childhood Source: An American Childhood
“On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.” IfsLooksPersonsHas BeensHandsAttentionCasesIssuesOur LivesCrazyCrimeSeriousLike YouToughVictimHarmHonestly Author:Bill James
“Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.” PersonsHas BeensReadingPracticeOur LivesMovementPlanetsSeriousNotionTeaAstrologyAlchemyGoatsPhonyPseudoscienceCarnivalsMidwaySawdustNumerologySerious PersonPhrenologyTea LeavesPalmistryBlarney Author:James J. Kilpatrick
“We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.” WarFactsPoliticalLife IsOur LivesTaughtSeriousTablesEverydayDinnerKitchenShoppingDishesFabricTopicsGroceriesWashingDinner TableGrocery ShoppingDomestic LifeEveryday ThingsWashing DishesCommuting Author:Annia Ciezadlo