Taken Quotes · Page 253

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously,…

— Anonymous

I'm appreciative that people appreciate the care I've taken of my feet.

— Toks Olagundoye

The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.

— Robbie Robertson

The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.

— Margaret Thatcher

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

— Mary Frances Berry

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

— Robinson Jeffers

I hang in there all the time. I'm not afraid to be taken out. I think that's the biggest thing to do-just…

— Dustin Pedroia

An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the…

— Fuller Albright

The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken…

— Gary Zukav

Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never…

— Yusuf Hamied

Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense…

— Monica Baldwin

One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by…

— Carlos Castaneda

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken…

— Barry Nelson

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

— Ann Romney

You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've…

— Ken Follett

I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future,…

— Sam Abell

They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After…

— Kevin Bacon

[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and…

— Pitirim Sorokin

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts…

— Amber Valletta

I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my…

— Chelsea Handler

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day,…

— Wade Boggs

If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been…

— Rajneesh

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

— T. B. Joshua