Takes Quotes

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

It takes people a while to trust you.

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.