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Serious Business Quotes

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business Picture Quote #1

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone Picture Quote #1

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence Picture Quote #1

Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren’t ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive Picture Quote #1

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy! Picture Quote #1

The reader must come armed, in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one’s responses are isolated, one’sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity Picture Quote #1

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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If so, our posture would be as follows: we published the story and said it was true, but now we are going to nominate it for a Pulitzer - now that's serious business Picture Quote #1

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The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business (Serious Business Quotes) I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone (Serious Business Quotes) Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it (Serious Business Quotes) Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings (Serious Business Quotes) 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 (Serious Business Quotes) 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 (Serious Business Quotes) Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence (Serious Business Quotes) Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren’t ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive (Serious Business Quotes) The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy! (Serious Business Quotes) The reader must come armed, in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one’s responses are isolated, one’sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity (Serious Business Quotes) Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business (Serious Business Quotes) 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 (Serious Business Quotes) If so, our posture would be as follows: we published the story and said it was true, but now we are going to nominate it for a Pulitzer - now that's serious business (Serious Business Quotes)

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