“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.” WritingLooksRealSeemsHouseRoomsViewsSubjectsSeriousSmall RoomsRoom With A ViewSerious Subjects Author:Peter York
“The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.” PoetrySubjectsSeriousTreatsSimplicityNobleAriseGiftedSeveritySerious Subjects Author:Matthew Arnold
“If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.” IfsShouldFeelingsMoralSubjectsSeriousPornographyExcludedCompunctionSerious Subjects Author:David Salle
“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.” IfsThinkingMenArtFactsLawPoliticalSituationHappenedTroubleSubjectsSeriousElectionMedicineAstronomyAwfulInstructionQualifiedElection DayBotanySerious Subjects Author:Hugh Price Hughes
“When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.” GivingTryingHumansLongAbleGrowsHuman BeingsAudienceGoneSubjectsSeriousCreditSerious Subjects Author:Prince
“I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.” PeopleWantShouldProblemBigsWantedPoorSubjectsSeriousWasteEatingThinkerConsumptionDocumentariesPoor PeopleSerious Subjects Author:Agnes Varda
“Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.” MenWritingDoeSubjectsMinesSeriousSerious SubjectsSerious Man Author:Plato
“Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can, and I have some great help: there are almost two hundred cartoons included in the book, including dozens from the brilliant Bizarro strip.” I CanTwoBookHelpingAnimalRightsSubjectsSeriousHundredIncludingBrilliantAnimal RightsDozenCartoonSerious Subjects Author:Karen Dawn
“I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers like Philip Pullman. Somehow myths have returned as a serious subject. It used to be scorned...really scorned. It was part of a nursery tradition, and it was also rather tainted - but not in an immovable way - by the association with right-wing ideologies after the World Wars.” ThinkingWorldWayKindWarUsedSubjectsSeriousTraditionWingsMythRecoveryUsed To BeIdeologyWar Of The WorldsAssociationPopularityRight WingNurseryPhilipTaintedScornedSerious Subjects Author:Marina Warner
“I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.” ThinkingRealMatterAbleLaughingSubjectsSeriousMastersDirectorsReal LifeSubject MatterHingesMake You LaughSillinessSerious Subjects Author:Ice Cube
“Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can.” I CanAnimalRightsSubjectsSeriousAnimal RightsSerious Subjects Author:Karen Dawn