Be Serious Quotes

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
- Hank Aaron

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
- Jack Henry Abbott

Play so that you may be serious.
- Anacharsis

Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once, to be seriously and responsibly active instead of occupying myself forever with nothing but esthetics and intellectual and artistic pursuits. It always ended, however, in resignation, in surrender to destiny.
- Hermann Hesse

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

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

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

You know, if I were a negative person, I would be seriously annoyed right now. (Talon)
You sound annoyed to me. (Wulf)
No, this isn't annoyed. This is mild perturbance. Besides, you should see these guys. 'Hey, Gorgeous George, I think I smell a Dark-Hunter.' 'Oh no, Dick, don't be a dick. There's no Dark-Hunter here.' 'I dunno...' 'Wait, I smell tourist. Tourist with big...strong soul.' (Talon)
Would you stop? (Wulf)
Talk about inkblots. (Talon)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

We're looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin)
Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny...you Sumerians really liked your hokey terms, huh? (Kat)
They didn't exactly ask my opinion before they named them. (Sin)
Good, 'cause my estimation of your intellect would be seriously scarred if they had. (Kat)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
- Isaac Barrow

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.
- Jeremy Bentham

Don't be serious, be sincere.
- Chetan Bhagat

Don't be serious,be sincere..
- Chetan Bhagat

Just think of a safe location."
"Are there tennis balls in the soup?"
"Come on, be serious."
"A pear camping highway fire mask," he said, more intensely.
My heart rate, which had finally started slowing, sped up again.
- Susan Bischoff

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!
- Eva Braun

Can you be serious for two words?"
"Not without effort.
- Steven Brust

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
- George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw

I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.
- Rick Riordan

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

Percy (talking about Annabeth):I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.
- Rick Riordan

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

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

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
- Donald Cargill

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
- Marilyn Monroe

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
- Benjamin Cohen

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
- Don Delillo

What was that all about?" Jay asked in loud whisper.
She still felt like her head was reeling. She had no idea what she was going to tell to Grady when school was out. "I think Grady just asked me to Homecoming," she announced to Jay.
He looked at her suspiciously. "The game?"
Violet cocked her head to the side and gave him a look that told him to be serious.
"No, I'm pretty sure he meant the dance," Violet clarified, exasperated by the obtuse question.
- Kimberly Derting

I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
- Neil Diamond

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

So you intend to spend the remainder of your life whoring, drinking, wagering, and being as outrageous as you can manage?"
Bram shook himself. He made it a point to be serious as little as possible, and neither did he want to argue with two newly married men about the meruts of being leg-shackled."Please Phin," he said aloud. "I would never think so small. You know my ultimate goal is to lower the standards of morality enough that everything I do becomes acceptable.
- Suzanne Enoch

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
- Arthur Erickson

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.
- Steven Moffat

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
- Robert M Hutchins

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
- Henrik Ibsen

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 King

When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jefferson. Only Wilson appears to be seriously fading, probably because his support for the World War I-era Sedition Act now seems outrageous; in this analogy, Woodrow is like the Doors and the Sedition Act is Oliver Stone.
- Chuck Klosterman

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

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

The single page of text was signed by the Winter Queen's official seal. I reread it three times.
You can't be serious. She's making you move in with me?
- Kalayna Price

Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and
perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously and here is the source of much of
our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is
one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright.
- Philip Roth

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
- Natan Sharansky

I don't have room for serious in my life."
He stepped close and brushed my lips with his, then spoke in a low tone. "I want you to be serious about me,
- Charles Sheehan Miles

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

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

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
- Pamela Stephenson

What an amazing day," Bree said, stretching in her seat.
"Thanks to me and my weather charm." I said lightly. Robbie and Hunter both looked at me in alarm. "You didn't," Said Robbie.
"You didn't," Said Hunter. I was enjoying this. "Maybe I did, maybe I didn't."
Hunter looked upset. "You can't be serious!"
Cahn't, I thought. Cahn too.
- Cate Tiernan

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
- Calvin Trillin

He couldn't be serious. He was not accusing Marc of wanting me dead! If that wasn't the pot calling the kettle black, I'd...I'd...pound the shit out of the pot myself!
- Rachel Vincent

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

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