(2009 quotes found)
“A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.”
Camille Paglia
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
Albert Einstein
“Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously”
Booth Tarkington
“These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”
Carol Gilligan
“Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized”
Benjamin Haydon
“I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.”
Cher
“War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.”
Arianna Stassinopoulos
“PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.”
Ambrose Bierce
