1,242 Quotes About Taken

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.