Takes Quotes

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.'

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.