Taken Quotes

• The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Important
  • Why
  • American

• It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • God
  • Men

• My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who was I to take on a battle between powers I didn't understand— armed with a runaway cat, a uniquely bad drummer, a pair of garden shears, and an Ovaltine-drinking teen Galileo? To save a girl who didn't want to be saved?

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Girl

• I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

  

  Kevin Jorgeson
  • Control
  • Taken
  • Risk

• Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Taken

• When I got a deposit on my very first cake, I took that deposit and I bought some cake mix with it. I've never taken a loan - ever. And we're doing this expansion just like everything we've done in this bakery as we've grown. If we weren't able to afford paying for something cash, we didn't buy it.

  

  Duff Goldman
  • Done
  • Taken

• I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

  

  Andy Hertzfeld
  • Great
  • Taken

• Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.

  

  William Wells Brown
  • Taken
  • Justice
  • Prejudice

• Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Art
  • Taken

• This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Time
  • Taken

• I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

  

  George Pataki
  • Energy
  • Taken

• From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents might be taken to prison. All Estonian families have these kind of stories.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Taken

• If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.

  

  Annie Golden
  • Taken

• A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Song
  • Taken
  • Lyrics

• They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Taken
  • Belief

• I've done a couple of conferences where you sit and sign autographs for people, and then you have photographs taken with them and a lot of them all dressed up in alien suits or 'Doctor Who' whatevers. I was terrified of doing it because I thought they'd all be loonies, but they are absolutely, totally charming as anything. It's great fun.

  

  John Hurt
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Death

• I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Done
  • Singing
  • Feels

• There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.

  

  Quintin Jardine
  • People
  • Believe
  • Experience

• Chances have been taken, opportunities granted, and because of such, I find myself in a position where some of my biggest dreams are in arm's reach.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Taken

• I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Taken
  • Failure

• When you're underwater with goggles on, a couple of your senses are taken away, and it becomes this purely visual thing. It's just you and yourself.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Taken
  • Couple

• I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Taken
  • Brain

• I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm staring out, and it's staring out. We're kind of staring out together. It's very poetic to me, watching that absent-minded passing of time. You realize how much you've taken in. What is left of that memory of you staring out of the window for an hour? It's all on the iPad.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Long
  • Together
  • Kind

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