Takes Quotes

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

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.

It takes two hands to clap.

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.