Takes Quotes

I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird.

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.

There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people.

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.