#seriously

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#convinced #doom #i #i am #prophets

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#bit #classics #consequences #five #him

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously. ↗

— Louis Adolphe Thiers

#necessary #nothing #politics #seriously #take

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#because #i #new #new york #novel

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#going #less #seriously #take #work

I find it odd that people take me seriously. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#i #me #odd #people #seriously

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#balls #little #politicians #seriously #should

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#i #i think #men #more #novels

We do not take humor seriously enough. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#humor #seriously #take

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

#eyes #go #had #happen #hear