We Took Quotes
189 We Took quotes by 172 unique authors
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If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
— Colum McCann
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Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us…
— Azar Nafisi
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How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal
— D. J. MacHale
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You're getting into some kind of shape, cop." Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head." Rhage…
— J R Ward
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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took…
— Dante Alighieri
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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a…
— Scott Westerfeld
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We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the…
— Mark Twain
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In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and…
— Bill McKibben
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We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after…
— Patrick deWitt
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A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the…
— Richard Brautigan
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Yes, of course. I was on her like, um... I believe that old woman last week we took after she'd burnt down her house cooking…
— Abbi Glines
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Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages;…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Someday you'll find the place It's the place where love takes over hate Then you'll see all the things you do Affect everyone around you…
— Hilary Duff
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Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same…
— Khaled Hosseini
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We took a right at the fork, heading farther north. The charred houses continued. To the right, a large sign nailed to an old telephone…
— Ilona Andrews
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I figure if there is a God, he or she isn’t paying attention to what we build or if we follow some elaborate rules, but…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried…
— Joss Whedon
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I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I…
— Anthony Bourdain
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You made me happy and you made me laugh, and if I could do it all over again, I would not hesitate. Look at our…
— Nicholas Sparks
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
— Bill Vaughan
Who Wrote These We Took Quotes
172 authors contributed a total of 189 We Took Quotes, led by these top contributors: