Took Quotes

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
- Henny Youngman

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller

When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ...
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost

I took some time out for life.
- James L. Brooks

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water.
I set up my own label and publishing,
etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
- David Knopfler

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who
took an interest in me and presented me with a key
to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
- Frederick Reines

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning,
but it took me a really long time before I was able
to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
- Patton Oswalt

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every
week and took the sacraments.
It never really touched the core of my being.
- Sting

I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business -
Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy.
They stopped and took their time to talk to people.
- Robert Wagner

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot,
my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
- Ted Hughes

When I went to college I took a creative writing class
and decided in a week to be a writer.
- David Guterson

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.
- Geezer Butler

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why
it took me years to build up my work.
- Gil Kane

I never had the high-paying job or the company car.
It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans.
I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.
- Christine O'Donnell

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
- Sidney Blumenthal

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
- Lech Walesa

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.
- Dusty Springfield

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction
and photography when I was still in high school.
- Ray Harryhausen

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries.
They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take
are calculated on the basis of the courage it took
to become replete with knowledge.
- William Hurt

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums.
So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
- Dave Grohl

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world,
but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it.
It took me a long time to appreciate that.
- David Friedman

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL,
and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.
- Steve Case

It took me a long time to realize that you have to
have a bit of an interlanguage with actors.
You have to give them something that they can act with.
- James Cameron

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term,
like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for
their entire literary environment and subject matter.
- Donna Tartt

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
- Nichelle Nichols

The Preparatory Commission held a total of four sessions,
the last of which took place just under two years after its creation,
from 31 January to 14 February 1967.
- Alfonso G. Robles

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
- Adam Jones

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me,
and I took refuge in atheism.
- Taylor Caldwell

It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends
and family won't see me on this show.
- Jonathan Frid

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes;
to collect the data in it all my life.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

They needed someone to write a script of The Great
Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making.
I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
- Francis Ford Coppola

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade,
I took up saxophone.
- Tom Verlaine

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo.
And then the bits and pieces were sculpted.
It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
- Brendan Fraser

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make,
but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took
less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?
- Tom Hanks

When the picture was finished, they took me into the
sound room and then I screamed more for about five
minutes just steady screaming,
and then they'd cut that in and add it.
- Fay Wray

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor,
so I never think of a movie that gets released as being
all done-it's just when they took it away from you.
- John Dykstra

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took
me five years to write An Ear to the Ground,
and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
- Ken Thompson

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted
my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
- Fran Lebowitz

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that
what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place,
and I love country music.
- Keith Urban

These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them.
I planned them, and removed them for investigation below,
which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov.
- Howard Carter

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although
I did something I had never done before,
which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic,
it felt like a vacation.
- Christian Slater

This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while
I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.
- Fred F. Fielding

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't
really examined any of the potential environmental
consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.
- Jeremy Rifkin

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15,
in high school.
- Beau Bridges

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God,
I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal,
and how he sleeps,
and the fact that he swims like a fish
because I took him to the ocean.
I'm so proud of all those things.
But he is my biggest pride.
- John Lennon

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop.
They came in and topped everybody, for sure.
They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.
- Richard Hell

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.
- Roger Andrew Taylor

The hardest part was when I was in high school not
having a job and always being broke.
I had to get to auditions without a car.
I either took the bus or walked.
- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

I rewrote it and I took all your notes.
Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
- David Steinberg

During my service in the United States Congress,
I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
- Al Gore

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
- Maureen Forrester

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz,
I kept taking her picture.
- Shirley Knight

As a teenager I was so insecure.
I was the type of guy that never fitted in because
he never dared to choose.
I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all.
For nothing.
And that thought took away all my ambition too.
- Johnny Depp

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be
and be that kind of person.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
- Sally Field

It took me four years to paint like Raphael,
but a lifetime to paint like a child.
- Pablo Picasso

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway
by the time he took office.
He was a war president the moment he took the oath.
But did he act like one?
- Howard Fineman

I took solace in my relationship with God who,
along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
- Lisa Bonet

I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud.
But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame,
so I took them out.
No one even noticed.
- Lexa Doig

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles
made it much easier to put the script together-we knew
who we were writing it for.
It took some mystery away.
- Stephen Hopkins

I took some classes in sign language when I was in
my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early.
But I never really wanted to learn.
- Stephanie Beacham

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.
- David Hockney

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant
Trail for about six hundred miles.
She really learned a lesson.
People forget too often how it was back then.
- Bruce Dern

When I left, I had learnt nothing.
I took nothing with me.
At least, that's what I thought then.
- Carmen Laforet

Rita got the best of us.
We took quite a beating.
It's going to take a while to come back from this.
- Rick Fox

While I was doing these plays in the beginning,
I wasn't getting paid.
I thought of it more as a hobby.
Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people
took what they were doing.
- Tom Berenger

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't
know how to do the way I could,
and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.
- Rick Derringer

I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time.
I took it as a good story.
Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive
so I never thought of it,
you know.
- Rod Steiger

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't
know I had a natural aptitude for.
- Geena Davis

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