I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
Tadao Ando

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
John Hughes

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
Ethan Allen

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
Ray Kroc

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
Ani DiFranco

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
Dennis Rodman

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
Alexandre Dumas

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.
Megan Fox

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
Henry Rollins

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

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
Jackie Collins

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.
Drew Carey

Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
Bruce Willis

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
Ice T

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
Ben Stiller

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.
James Monroe