Quotes of: Serious Keyword

I used his severed hand as a murder weapon. I hope I didn’t get my fingerprints on his fingerprints.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Science, where would scientists be without it? They’d probably still be in my basement, where I left them a few minutes ago.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

If you can be quiet, you’re more than welcome to stay in my House of Silence. Bring your own bubblegum ice cream. 


Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

If my skull were made of glass, I wouldn’t want you to see my thoughts, so I’d fear going bald.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

The months roll by like wheels on a wheelchair. Pretty soon it’ll be July. Feels like just last month it was May.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I don’t have to extend my hand to greet you. A wink can reach across the room. And a wink in a telescope can stretch across the universe.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

Power Through Prayer

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

Persuasion

I find I'm unable to speak, unable to move, snared in his serious gaze like some kind of frightened rabbit

Promises and Other Broken Things

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

The Red Badge of Courage

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

Wake

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

War and Peace

I am a writer who came froma sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

On Writing

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.

The Whispering Swarm

There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.

The Woman in White

I cross country ski on conveyer belts covered with shaved ice. People trying to check out at the grocery store need to show more respect for serious athletes.

Xazaqazax

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

Ayelet Waldman

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make pe...

Eve Arnold

If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some s...

LZ Granderson

I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.

Nicole Ari Parker