Top 100 Be Serious Quotes
#1. You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies."
"Eve," Michael said. "Horror movies are not documentaries.
Rachel Caine
#3. In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
Oscar Wilde
#4. I'd never been one to break rules. But they seemed to matter less and less with every kiss. Every thrust into her softness. Every sigh she moaned into my ear. Of course, that wasn't the case. I knew there'd be serious repercussions if the truth came out, but I couldn't stay away from her.
Sha Renee
#6. Life was never meant to be serious, it was meant to be a joy.
Steven Redhead
#7. Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
Fanny Brice
#8. Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. You are not serious and you expect me to be serious?
Deyth Banger
#10. The debate that has been conducted in terms of "creation versus evolution" has gotten caught up with all kinds of other debates, and this has provided a singularly unhelpful backdrop to the would-be serious discussion of other parts of the Bible.
N. T. Wright
#11. A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
Rajneesh
#12. The world is in serious condition largely due to our conditioning to be serious. Seriously.
Swami Beyondananda
#13. I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders;
and now you want me to climb
on a jackass? Try to be serious.
Mirabai
#14. Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.
Annie Leibovitz
#15. I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.
Mark Haddon
#16. A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
John Darnielle
#17. Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.
Stephen LaBerge
#18. It's hard for me to be serious. I can't really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I'm three feet tall, basically.
Janelle Monae
#19. Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though.
Colin Kaepernick
#20. Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true.
Steven D. Levitt
#22. You have to have a work ethic, and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools.
Jakob Dylan
#23. We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.
Carson Kressley
#24. She drops her art if anything else catches her. Her contrariness prevents her taking it seriously - she must never be serious, she feels she might give herself away. And she won't give herself away - she's always on the defensive. That's what I can't stand about her type.
D.H. Lawrence
#25. I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.
Maggie Cheung
#26. I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
Calvin Trillin
#28. It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.
Rick Yune
#29. Joking apart, now let us be serious.
Horace
#30. I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.
Halston Sage
#31. People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.
Anthony Hopkins
#32. When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, Is this necessary at this point in the book?
Pat Conroy
#33. I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.
Molly Ivins
#34. I give Finn a wicked smile. "Don't you think a peg leg would be charming? Like a pirate? The first mate of the Calypso had one, didn't he?"
"It would add a certain rakish factor. Have you got a spare eye patch?"
"Be serious, you two. Gangrene is no laughing matter," Mrs. O'Hare scolds.
Jessica Spotswood
#35. You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry
#36. The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.
Ryoji Noyori
#37. Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?"
"Plenty of time," he said softly.
"Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?"
"Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid.
Maya Banks
#39. Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.
Gerhard Richter
#40. Life is a place to have joy and fun, so why be serious?
Debasish Mridha
#41. A bridge. A big bridge with lots of traffic. You can't be serious. I've almost killed us at least twice going up and down these crazy hilly roads!" I yelped with true fear in my quivering voice.
Elle Klass
#42. To be diligent means to be serious and devoted to the work of God
Sunday Adelaja
#43. There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.
Jim Gaffigan
#44. I'm pretty goofy and I make a lot of dumb jokes - life is too short to be serious, so I guess that's how I flirt. To be honest, I think I'm too shy and reserved to be a proper old fashioned flirt.
Cory Monteith
#45. Green tea?"
"You can't be serious."
The old woman nodded her approval. "I wasn't."
"Because you know when a cow chews grass? And he or she chews and chews and chews? Well, green tea tastes like French-kissing that cow after it's done chewing all that grass.
David Levithan
#46. Life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#47. Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It is one of the difficult and delightful subtleties of life that we must deeply acknowledge certain things to be serious and yet retain the power and will to treat them often as lightly as a game.
C.S. Lewis
#48. All right, it's a beach. I'm just messing with you."
"It would be funnier if we hadn't spent the last two days trying to hunt down the glitch."
"Did you find it?"
"Yes. The software seems to be submitting fake bug reports. Try to be serious."
"Try to not call me 'the software.
Bryce C. Anderson
#49. I love to dress up. You have to have a sense of fun in life, too. We can all be serious and work and do our bit, but every now and again you have to have a good giggle.
Marie-Chantal Claire
#50. We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#51. Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
P.G. Wodehouse
#52. The sight of so many agitated and serious people made Margaret smile, but she reflected that they were paid to be serious, and enjoyed being agitated.
E. M. Forster
#53. And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? "You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off ... " (50)
Julia Cameron
#55. You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful. You'll be better at what you do.
Stanley Tucci
#56. And somebody might now want to ask me, "Can't you ever be serious?" The answer is, "No.
Kurt Vonnegut
#57. When a volcano erupts, people get surprised, but it is a volcano! There is no 'place' for the surprise! The biggest problem with people is that they are not serious about the matters of life and death! Be serious or alternatively lose your existence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.
Edmund White
#59. People who think literature should be Serious - should serve as a blueprint for a rocket that will never take off - are malevolent at best, anti-Semitic at worst.
Gary Shteyngart
#60. I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates
Jean-Claude Juncker
#61. Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.
Osho
#62. Can you be serious for two words?"
"Not without effort.
Steven Brust
#63. always was and would be a serious soul in search of serious ideas to be serious about. Nina
Amor Towles
#64. Life is serious. (Valerius) No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. (Tabitha)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#65. Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a 'we must do something universe,' it is a 'we must be serious universe!' Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, 'waiting' must be abolished!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. Poseidon's underpants! You can't be serious.
Rick Riordan
#67. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#68. Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
John Irving
#69. When I'm working, I try to be serious and rest where I can. I just mark in rehearsals. I still train. I warm up. And I still take lessons from this unbelievable teacher in New York, Joan Lader. I try to be stretched and ready to go.
Max Von Essen
#70. The edge of a precipice is a very merciless school; over there you either learn to be serious or you die foolishly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.
Peter T. King
#72. Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.
Mel Brooks
#73. A MWF sex schedule? How efficient," he mused.
"Please be serious."
A wicked grin flashed on his face. "Fine, pencil me in. I'll be ready and erect whenever you need me.
Katie Ashley
#74. Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.
Lewis Black
#75. I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
Susan Sontag
#76. So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'
Shailene Woodley
#77. Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. If you really want to contribute to our theoretical understanding of physical laws - and it is an exciting experience if you succeed! - there are many things you need to know. First of all, be serious about it!
Gerard 't Hooft
#79. I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
Neil Diamond
#80. Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.
Chamique Holdsclaw
#82. Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
Rabbit Maranville
#83. Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.
Joyce Meyer
#84. Your eyes may mislead you sometimes. So don't be serious in observing, listen to your heart at times when you are confused.
Giridhar Alwar
#85. Art must always remain earnest ... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.
Arshile Gorky
#86. Don't try to be something you're not. If you're goofy, be goofy if you're serious be serious. And no matter what, give everything you have and enjoy it while you can because it can all be taken away from you at any given moment.
Derek Holland
#87. Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
Natan Sharansky
#88. It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.
Tim Brown
#89. When will you understand that your childish beliefs mean an absolute nothing in this wild universe! When will you be serious? When will you give up deceiving yourself? When will you stop believing in the tales of old times as if they are true?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
Henrik Ibsen
#91. I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it might be variety, it might be a talk show, whatever. There's no box.
Mo'Nique
#92. God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that we be serious about holiness, that we grieve over sin in our lives instead of justifying it, and that we earnestly pursue holiness as a way of life.
Jerry Bridges
#93. It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
Bjorn Lomborg
#94. On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.
Mika Brzezinski
#95. But ... you're still getting married?" Grover sounded hurt. "Who's the bride?" Ploypemus looked toward the boiling pot. Clarisse made a strangled sound. "Oh, no! You can't be serious. I'm not-
Rick Riordan
#96. Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.
Anita Moorjani
#97. The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.
Billy Collins
#98. The life is an adventure. Is exciting and terrifying. From time to time can be a little bored but should never be serious.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#99. The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery, and you can't be serious. You're not a big hitter.
Miriam Toews
#100. Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
Rajneesh
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