Taking Quotes

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.