Takes Quotes

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.

Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

I just go where the guitar takes me.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.