Took Quotes

5713 Took quotes by 3792 unique authors

My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it. — Amanda Bearse
If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to… — Barack Obama
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so. — Zane Grey
I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off… — Marion Jones
Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said,… — Harpo Marx
I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger… — Denise Richards
I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them… — Leon Redbone
Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the… — Unknown Author
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.… — Tycho Brahe
Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look… — Unknown Author
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche… — R. J. Hollingdale
It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in… — Piper Laurie
He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it. — Martin Tyler
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took… — Unknown Author
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far… — Augustus De Morgan
Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to… — Cherie Currie
A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a… — Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took my… — Joe Scarborough
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I… — Meg Tilly
Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and… — Rich Little
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I… — Unknown Author
They are a very tough opponent, and they took us the first game. So we want our revenge, and we are going to go right… — Unknown Author
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. — Robert Breault
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no… — Saint Basil

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