Takes Quotes

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

Be who you want to be, do what it takes to be that way, and in time, you will have what you want in life.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

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

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.