Takes Quotes

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Whatever it takes to make an individual feel better, I'm all for it.

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.

I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

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

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!