Quotes About Seriously

#1. Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.

Francis Crick

#2. If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.

Anna Kendrick

#3. Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.

Philip K. Dick

#4. I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Orson Welles

#5. Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.

Richard Branson

#6. MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

Megan Alexander

#7. I never take myself too seriously.

Lee Westwood

#8. Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple ice creams, especially vanilla. One should have fun when one eats, but it should also be seriously good.

Jeffrey Steingarten

#9. Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Elihu Root

#10. Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night?
Michael: Moms like me.

Rachel Caine

#11. You're an asshole."
"And you're a bitch," he says. "A bitch with a kick-ass smile and eyes that can seriously screw with a guy's head.

Simone Elkeles

#12. At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

David Walton

#13. I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

John W. Thompson

#14. She saw Hitler as "a clown who looked like Charlie Chaplin." Like many others in America at this time and elsewhere in the world, she could not imagine him lasting very long or being taken seriously.

Erik Larson

#15. So what's the point of it all?"
"Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? You're asking me for the meaning of life? Isn't that a little stereotypical?"
"Well it's a reasonable question," you persisted.

Andy Weir

#16. Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

China Mieville

#17. I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.

Ken Baumann

#18. Gabriel raised an eyebrow. "Are you seriously going out with a dagger strapped to your back? You might as well just wear a sign that says Look at me, I'm a killer!

Chelsea Fine

#19. Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

Virginia Woolf

#20. And Unseen University took tradition very seriously, at least when it remembered to.

Terry Pratchett

#21. More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.

Ismail Serageldin

#22. In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously.

Milan Kundera

#23. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

Bernie Glassman

#24. In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#25. Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Alan W. Watts

#26. In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

Scott Avett

#27. We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#28. Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

Vincent Van Gogh

#29. I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.

Guy Kawasaki

#30. Did you take your sassy pills tonight, Jules?"
"Seriously, Jane. I will cut a bitch."
"Where did you even learn that expression? Have you been watching RuPaul's Drag Race again?

Nicole Peeler

#31. There is no human soul, and I am absolutely for sure seriously not going to fucking cry.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

Susan Sontag

#33. I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

Tom Verlaine

#34. Fuck me, babe, seriously? You knocked yourself out to make me wild. Why, Lanie? Why the fuck would you pull out all the fuckin' stops to make a man already drunk on you drunker?

Kristen Ashley

#35. Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

Peter Welch

#36. A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

Denzel Washington

#37. take unorthodox ideas seriously today, and the mainstream sees that as a sign of progress. We can be glad that there are fewer crazy cults now, yet that gain has come at great cost: we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.

Peter Thiel

#38. If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.'

Seth Numrich

#39. When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#40. I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

Gary Jennings

#41. I was seriously considering giving both Ellie and Braden a lump of coal for their Christmas present this year as a thank-you for turning Joss into a normal person who annoyed her friends with her terrible matchmaking skills.

Samantha Young

#42. I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.

Zeena Parkins

#43. It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

Bob Odenkirk

#44. My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.

Sonu Nigam

#45. When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,

James Martin

#46. If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#47. I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.

Emraan Hashmi

#48. I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

Kevin James

#49. If people don't take politics seriously, then they deserve the jokers that rule over them.

Jit Sharma

#50. The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

Hayley Atwell

#51. The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.

Anne Edwards

#52. As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, "Aye, Sir. Course laid in" is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Wil Wheaton

#53. I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.

Harry Connick Jr.

#54. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Dave Barry

#55. Like many people of limited intellectual scope, Snouty did take what he could do very seriously.

Terry Pratchett

#56. I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because when I came out of theater school I took myself way too seriously, so it's kind of ironic that I ended up sort of going down the comedy path.

James Roday

#57. Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.

Thom Yorke

#58. I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

David Bowie

#59. I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

James Joyce

#60. On the contrary, I think making you happy should be taken very seriously.

Drea Damara

#61. I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

Claire Tomalin

#62. I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

Bryan Adams

#63. Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

#64. Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Stephen Colletti

#65. I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#66. I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously.

Madonna Ciccone

#67. To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million to 20 million new jobs in the coming decade ... And it's very hard to imagine where those jobs are going to come from unless we seriously get busy reinventing manufacturing.

Susan Hockfield

#68. How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

Tamra Davis

#69. If we take seriously the idea that all objects recede interminably into themselves, then human perception becomes just one among many ways that objects might relate. To put things at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us. The Computer

Ian Bogost

#70. Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

Alfie Kohn

#71. I wondered what the FML post would look like.
"Today, when my father tried to shoot me, I found out he was an assassin monger who's been keeping my mom locked away in a secret facility for freaky killers. FML."
Seriously. F.M.L.

Jus Accardo

#72. Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.

Gregg Allman

#73. We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.

Tony Blair

#74. Seriously, honey," I said. "Your manners are appalling. Go fuck yourself.

Kylie Scott

#75. The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#76. If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.

Barack Obama

#77. His were the eyes of one who had seen too much suffering to take suffering too seriously.

Rick Yancey

#78. I'm glad that when I was on the sidewalk on the square in town with you and Casey all those years ago, I decided for the first time in my life not to play it safe."
"I'm glad too, Ivey, seriously fuckin' glad you took a chance on me.

Kristen Ashley

#79. I don't partake, really, of any of the typical rock-star-lifestyle things you could think of. I try to be responsible when I'm out on the road. I take it pretty seriously, what I'm doing, as something that's good for the world, and my family, and everyone.

Matisyahu

#80. The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.

Wendell Berry

#81. I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

David Duchovny

#82. I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#83. America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

H.L. Mencken

#84. The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

Anna Wintour

#85. I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.

Bernie Glassman

#86. He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

Paulo Coelho

#87. You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

Nicole Kidman

#88. So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

Gloria Steinem

#89. I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?

Andy Cohen

#90. Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

Nelson Mandela

#91. I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

Judi Dench

#92. Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

Shannon Hale

#93. You installed a GPS tracker on my phone? Seriously?" I was equal parts impressed and horrified. Apparently Seth's obsession with my whereabouts knew no bounds.

Lisa Roecker

#94. Good luck with that, I said. Because seriously. The fuck? Strawberry social? Did I somehow move onto the set of the remake of Little House on the Prairie?

Susan Juby

#95. whatever it is you choose to think, your subconscious mind takes it very seriously and your experience will reflect your thinking.

Marianne Williamson

#96. There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.

Blink-182

#97. Is it splendid, or stupid, to take life seriously?

Gustave Flaubert

#98. I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

Roz Chast

#99. I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world.

Chelsea Handler

#100. I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.

William T. Vollmann