Taken Quotes
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Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
J. D. Salinger
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There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.
Joely Richardson
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I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.
Paul Cleave
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I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
Brittany Murphy
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I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.
George Hamilton
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We will also assume in the present study that individual values are taken as data and are not capable of being altered by the nature of the decision process itself
Kenneth Arrow
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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
Charles Dudley Warner
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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
Billy Sunday
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Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.
Amanda Lindhout
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
Booth Tarkington
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And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.
Patty Hearst
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I keep telling these millennials it's all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don't care about whether or not someone is gay. They don't care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They're going forward, not backward.
Donna Brazile
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I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.
George Strait
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My mom likes getting her photo taken.
Brooklyn Beckham
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I want to be outspoken! I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free ... and I won’t...
Angelina Jolie
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Beside the staff of life, taken and fashioned from the heavy earth, beside our marriage, work, and war the free man, too, will live and grow towards the sun. Not the ripe fruit alone - blossom is lovely, too. Does blossom only serve the fruit, or does fruit only serve the blossom - who knows? But both are given to us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
Billy Al Bengston
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Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
Fernando Pessoa
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When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!
David Twohy
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We have to build the spiritual world out of symbols taken from our own personality, as we build the scientific world out of the symbols of the mathematician.
Arthur Eddington
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Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.
Ann Wilson Heart
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This entire opus is respectfully dedicated to all those who have loved unconditionally only to have their hearts unanaesthetically ripped out: Base not your joy on the deeds of others, for what is given can be taken away. No hope = No fear.
Peter Steele
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I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.
Maurice Strong
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…Novello should be extremely grateful that his innubile daughter was being taken off his hands by a Tasca.
Anthony Burgess