Takes Quotes

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.

It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.

It takes two men to make one brother.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

I know what it takes to put on a good show for the fans.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.