The Taken Quotes

I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater. Hang on, that can be taken two ways.

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

I've taken Eco drink everyday for a year and I can tell you that it works!!!! I definitely can tell when I miss a day.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.

I am not single and I'm not taken. I'm simply on reserve for one who deserves me.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.