Takes Quotes

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Instant gratification takes too long.

We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

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.