Taking Quotes

There's a handful of situations already in two games - some hits I don't need to take - and I'm taking them because I'm stringing out the play.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.