The Taken Quotes

As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They're taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over.

When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.

All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.

It must not simply be taken for granted that a given set of ill-assorted people, for no other reason than because it is Christmas, will be joyful to be reunited and to break bread together.

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

I don't understand people who won't sign autographs or have pictures taken.

We're the generous country, we're the ones that open our doors to other countries, and in many cases we get taken advantage of because of that.

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.

I'm always in those tabloids where they show who's badly dressed. It's funny, because each time I'm getting my picture taken, I'm thinking, This is a nice outfit.

Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.

Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.

When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night.

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.

I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

Look at me – it's taken 10 years off me today. It's these tablets, they're great!

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

I don't think it's inherently wrong when bands do certain things - sometimes I'm really excited when I see a band has taken a big ad or sync.

No opposition politician has ever taken responsibility for his or her election failures.

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music.

Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.