Very Serious Quotes

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
- F Murray Abraham

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
- Janet Evanovich

D'Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he'll be his usual charming self by morning.
- Alexandre Dumas

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.
- Hermann Hesse

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.
- Nicole Richie

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.
- John Ashcroft

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.
- Kelly Ayotte

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
- Daniel Baldwin

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.
- James Baldwin

Jack. This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose?
Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life.
Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here.
Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.
- Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
- Oscar Wilde

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
- Marek Belka

There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.
- Kristen Bell

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
- Gael Garcia Bernal

Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
- Uwe Boll

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.
- Timothy Bottoms

Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
- Eddie Bracken

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
- Alton Brown

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
- Vincent Bugliosi

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.
- Charles Bukowski

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
- Rose Byrne

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
- Tony Campolo

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
- Jim Carrey

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter

I take my craft very seriously.
- Jimmy Chamberlin

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.
- Dick Cheney

A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
- Gerald Clarke

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
- Gerald Clarke

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.
- Clarence Clemons

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.
- Richard J Codey

Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.
- Terry Pratchett

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
- Juan Cole

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
- William Collins

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.
- Tim Conway

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.
- Roger Daltrey

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
- Samuel Dash

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
- Robin Day

For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying.
- Stephen Dobyns

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.
- Robert Downey Jr

...but those eyes made him take her very seriously. Beautiful, yes. Delightful and enchanting, definitely. But absolutely dangerous.
- India Drummond

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
- Carol Ann Duffy

... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]
- Kim Edwards

Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.
- Carmen Electra

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
- John Irving

LAVINIA: Oh Edward!
The point is, that since I've been away
I see that I've taken you much too seriously.
And now I can see how absurd you are.
EDWARD: That is a very serious conclusion to have arrived at in...how many?...thirty-two hours.
- T S Eliot

My work is a game, a very serious game.
- M C Escher

I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.
- Rima Fakih

Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. "This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think we need to concentrate on much more feminine articles of clothing."
He reached around her and fingered the soft material. "Where is the rest of it?" He was very serious, his dark eyes searching her face for signs she was teasing.
- Christine Feehan

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
- Richard P Feynman

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.
- Fred F Fielding

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
- Colin Firth

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
- Ken Follett

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
- Steve Forbes

I'm a very serious person.
- Tom Ford

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
- Sigmund Freud

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
- Robert Fulghum

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.
- Eckhart Tolle

I'm very serious about acting.
- Victor Garber

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
- Judy Garland

The fact is that we take music very seriously.
- Peter Garrett

I sometimes suspect they don't take Dr. Aphrodite very seriously. Which is sad, really. Because what's more serious than love?
- Jody Gehrman

I take my responsibilities very seriously.
- Roger Goodell

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
- Delta Goodrem

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
- Andrew Greeley

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.
- Eva Green

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.
- Seth Green

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
- Tom Robbins

When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
- Tom Robbins

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.
- Bruce Greenwood

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
- Stanislav Grof

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
- Dan Hawkins

The doc watched her go, and then said, very softly, "don't let it happen."
"Sorry?"
Samedi yanked his head back on, and once it was in place, looked at me very seriously. "Just...don't let it happen."
He shuffled off into the other lab then, leaving me to stew in his words.
- Lia Habel

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.
- Anthony Michael Hall

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.
- Deidre Hall

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.
- Patty Hearst

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don't work.
- J K Rowling

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.
- Ken Hensley

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.
- Eva Herzigova

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
- Howard Hodgkin

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
- Peter Hook

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
- Brit Hume

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
- Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.
- Jewel

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
- Roland Joffe

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

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
- Magic Johnson

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
- Walid Jumblatt

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
- Kim Dae Jung

For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he'd never even seen.
- Yukako Kabei

I take humor very seriously. I also take it three times a day, with meals.
- Jarod Kintz

You're probably wondering what sort of "secret society" I'm in. Well, I can't tell you much, but I can tell you it's not the Skull and Bones, the Masons, or the Cacophony Society. No, this secret society is so secret that I'm not even sure I'm a member. I can tell you the group I might belong to calls itself "The Whispers," and takes its secrecy very seriously.
- Jarod Kintz

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.
- Bob Keeshan

The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
- Ben E King

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.
- Cheryl Ladd

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.
- Serge Lang

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.
- Christine Lavin

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
- Jacob Lew

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.
- C S Lewis

A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.
- C S Lewis

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
- C S Lewis

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
- Carl Lewis

What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on?
- Jeff Lindsay

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
- Arthur Machen

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.
- Thabo Mbeki

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
- James Mcavoy

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
- John Mcgahern

Captain looks at Janie closely. "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph," she says. "You're gonna have a heck of a shiner by the time the day's over. Did you black our?"
"I...uh..." Janie shrugs. "I really have no idea."
"Yes, I think she did." Cabel cuts in. "I'm going to need to watch her all day. And probably all night, too," he adds. Very, very seriously.
The captain throws a rubber eraser at him and sends him out for coffee.
- Lisa Mcmann

The European nations take climate change very seriously.
- Donella Meadows

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.
- Christopher Meloni

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.
- A A Milne

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.
- Daniel Keys Moran

I am very serious about my baby.
- Morrissey

People think that I'm very serious.
- Kate Mosse

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
- Bill Murray

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.
- Robert De Niro

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.
- Miranda Otto

Don't make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They're very serious business.
- Francine Pascal

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
- Rosamund Pike

HOMELESSNESS...is neither a disease nor crime...but a very serious problem!
- Timothy Pina

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls
- Max Planck

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
- John Polkinghorne

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
- Natalie Portman

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
- Victoria Pratt

My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.
- Emily Procter

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
- Aishwarya Rai

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
- Mordecai Richler

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
- Tim Robbins

Last summer, when he thought I wasn't looking, I observed Cubby telling one of the neighborhood six-year-olds that there were dragons living in the storm drains, under our street.
'We feed them meat...and then they don't get hungry and blow fire and roast us.'
Little James listened closely, with a very serious expression on his face. Then he ran home to get some hot dogs from his mother.
- John Elder Robison

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
- J D Salinger

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
- George Saunders

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
- Charles Schumer

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
- Ashley Scott

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.
- Peter Scott

I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.
- Ryan Seacrest

Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don't hold on to the ball.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
- Robert Shea

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
- Nancy Sinatra

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
- John Singleton

I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.
- Lionel Stander

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.
- Mary Steenburgen

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
- Theodore Sturgeon

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.
- Harry Stack Sullivan

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
- David Suzuki

I take my part in the food chain very seriously.
- Dominique Swain

I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.
- Matthew Sweet

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
- Ken Thompson

...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.'
What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'
Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.
- John Kennedy Toole

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
- Elie Wiesel

Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
- Donatella Versace

I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.
- Miroslav Vitous

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
- Miroslav Vitous

We're a family that takes its home entertainment very seriously.
- David Foster Wallace

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
- Wendy Wasserstein

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
- Max Weinberg

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
- Michael Welch

There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two very serious authors had set out to collaborate and then had published a limerick.
- Rebecca West

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.
- Eileen Wilks

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
- Venus Williams

It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
- Kevin Williamson

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
- Bob Woodward

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
- Robert Wyatt

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.
- Daniel Yergin

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
- Dweezil Zappa

I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels, and of what their reaction is. There's always one guy who doesn't get it.
- David Zucker

CNBC is a very serious-minded financial news network, and what we've seen thus far from Fox appears to be not as investment-focused or financially focused, and that's good for us.
- Jeff Zucker