Takes Quotes

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.