Takes Quotes

Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.

I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.