They Take Quotes

505 They Take quotes by 414 unique authors

Most copywriters are like engines. They take a while to warm up to get to the point. — Drayton Bird
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create… — Cameron Sinclair
A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is… — Langston Hughes
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which… — Ralph Ellison
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other… — Peg Bracken
But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at… — Anne Tyler
Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them… — George Steiner
People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much. — Norman Mailer
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art,… — William Saroyan
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. — George Sand
The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin. — Murray Kempton
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time,… — Anthony Burgess
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly… — Tamora Pierce
I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make… — Michael Pitt
How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy… — Frederick Lenz
If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody… — Ron Suskind
Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it… — Bobby Vinton
I admire this town a lot. They take care of their own. There's not a lot of places in the world, much less America, that… — Justin Timberlake
In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we… — Frederick Lenz
They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made… — Alan Watts
The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting — John Monks
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got… — Ornette Coleman
The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to… — David Puttnam
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They… — Sandra Brown
Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know… — Drew Bledsoe

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