They Take Quotes

505 They Take quotes by 414 unique authors

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve. — Margaret Heffernan
3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always… — Dave Eggers
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you… — Diane Setterfield
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. — Banksy
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time… — Philip Roth
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole… — Jodi Picoult
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when… — Mark Twain
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously — Oscar Wilde
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. — Victor Hugo
Jules has always been one of those women that men go crazy about because she has enough self-confidence to say this is me, take it… — Jane Green
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the… — Angela Carter
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make… — Isak Dinesen
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. — W. Somerset Maugham
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state… — Thomas Jefferson
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not… — James A. Baldwin
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is… — Terry Eagleton
Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with… — Bertrand Russell
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get… — Donald Miller
You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They… — Henry Rollins

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