Serious Intent Quotes

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.

It's really deep to me. Although it seems to many people that I'm making silly music, I'm really serious.

I want to play Test cricket until I die, seriously.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

Some people just come to a rally to see the stars. But some do take us seriously. They have been watching us on the screen and they know the conviction that goes into our acting.

A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youʹd actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donʹt think sheʹs joking.

Why would you give me so much money and not try to win? What on earth is the point of that? They have to be serious about winning going forward. There's no other logical explanation.

Suppose someone is overheard in a restaurant saying that he wants to blow something up. And someone tells us about it. What should we do? Don't we need to find out if he was serious? Or was he drunk? The way to do that is to have someone engage him in an undercover way, not show up with a badge and say, 'What are your thoughts in regard to terrorism?’ Plenty of times it's a wing nut or some drunk, and we drop it.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

When I was talking a lot of trash, a lot of the guys knew that when I started getting serious was when I started getting a little bit quieter. If I started locking up somebody, then I'd start talking even more and I'd talk more aggressive. But once I stopped, they knew I was really serious.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

All my works are games, serious game.

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

There's no reason for me to come and fight for fun. I don't do that. That's not what I do.

I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. [silence] This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good.

I am uniquely positioned and prepared to be president. I can assure you I am serious. I am committed

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious.

I'm not playing around in 2016.