The Taken Quotes

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

Having things taken away from you is not the same as giving them away.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

We are as humans essentially products of our hardware - that is an insight that I've taken with me into the trading side.

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

We're all vulnerable, and it's all hackable. If someone wants you and has targeted you, you can be taken down, and that fact is really scary.

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person — contrary to public perception.

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs whether banned or unbanned, on or off the list, at any time. In fact, I underwent hundreds of tests during my career and all were negative.

The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.