Took Quotes

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

My dad took me to my first movie.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.