Quotes for All
I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it’s all serious work – they’re just a reaction to what I see. I don’t leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself ‘Today I’m going to be funny and tomorrow I’m going to be sad.’ Elliott … Read more
Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, ‘What really matters?’ Freeman Patterson
The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion. Donald M. MacKinnon
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me – it’s not as if it’s a pleasure. Colm Toibin
The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into safe spaces and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today’s feminists should be reaching out to women’s groups in the developing world. Christina Hoff Sommers
Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work. Charles E. Burchfield
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted … Read more
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. Benjamin Franklin
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I really wanted to do some serious work. I really wanted to be a part of dramatic films. I wanted to show this talent, whatever that means, that I could be a dramatic actress as well. But the truth is, a) I don’t know if I can, and b) I love doing comedy, and I … Read more