#serious

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #cold #coldness #difficulties #discernment

I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both. ↗

— Sarah Dessen Along for the Ride

#difficuly #feelings #infatuation #intrigue #joke

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#seriousness #humor

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class. ↗

— Christine Lavin

#class #i #kindergarten #serious #very

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#art form #black #form #literature #rigorous

New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#country #critical #everyone #fear #how

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. ↗

— Major Taylor

#confront #deep #deep feeling #every #express

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. ↗

— Magic Johnson

#basketball court #breathes #court #crazy #eats

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

#definition #itself #judging #judgment #long

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. ↗

— William Nicholson

#began #chosen #form #i #novel