Seriously I M Kidding Quotes

#1. Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.

Martha Grimes

#2. Nobody has time for your priceless prose. Get to the point.

Jim Michaels

#3. Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

Edward Norton

#5. When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.

Agnieszka Radwanska

#6. I can't always live my life for everybody else.

Aubrey O'Day

#7. Everyone who lived here said those things: provincial, self-satisfied, boring. If you said that, it showed you recognized these qualities but did not partake of them yourself.

Margaret Atwood

#8. In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

John Maynard Keynes

#9. No one should ever take them self or others too seriously."

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#10. A new voice pops up on the comm, relayed from the station. March. "What the frag are you doing, Triumph? Who's at the helm? I didn't give clearance for a pleasure cruise."
"Can't talk, Commander," Hit answers smoothly. "We're busy saving your ass.

Ann Aguirre

#11. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls.

Henrik Ibsen

#12. I spend my days on a strict schedule. It helps to tell my brain when to behave a certain way and helps to keep my impulses and fantasies under control.

Alessandra Torre

#13. Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Will Durant

#14. Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Rick Perlstein

#15. Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

Bobby Riggs

#16. We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.

Roy Kesey

#17. I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.

Emily Susan Rapp