Quotes about taken
taken thinking years
There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost. Rufus Wainwright
taken answers bills
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive. Rowan Williams
taken thinking gun
I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken. Ronald Reagan
taken sleep men
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep. Wendell Phillips
taken matter events
What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence! Walter Raleigh
taken decision world
Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong. Jose Manuel Barroso
taken rights
Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. Jose Marti
taken men rising-up
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge to-day of any civilisation. ...[T]he type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world. Jose Ortega y Gasset
taken
I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that. Jonny Lee Miller
taken style form
Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool. Jonathan Stroud
taken past joining-in
That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.
taken age next
It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now. Jonathan Swift
taken heaven atheism
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
taken years steps
It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie. Kevin Smith
taken successful thinking
Im always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then Im completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know Its just really remarkable. Kevin Spacey
taken dark men
They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man) Kevin Bacon
taken substance performances
I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance. Kelli White
taken inspiration artist
When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music. Katy B
taken thinking way
When you start using more expensive cameras, everything around it gets more expensive, which is something we hadn't necessarily taken into account beforehand. Your lighting package gets way more expensive, and then coloring it is going to be more expensive. So I think all of that will essentially be cushioning our camera package. Budgets beget budgets, and expenses beget expenses. Katie Aselton
taken wish music-business
I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken. Kurt Cobain
taken dark self
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under. Khaled Hosseini
taken light age
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
taken aeneas giving
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.
taken cities gone
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls. Jonathan Raban
taken rights holocaust
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights. Jonathan Sacks
taken safety risk
While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks. Naoto Kan
taken independent-women may
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. Naomi Wolf
taken winning government
The UPA government is non-serious, it has taken the people for granted & it is not bothered about the youth. Their approach shows lack of faith in democracy. Our goal is to win the trust of the people & give dignity to them... Narendra Modi
taken tired talking
See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your Acts, the Nation needs action.
taken world gears
Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen. Jack Welch
taken winning people
You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters. Harvey Mackay
taken numbness costumes
I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added. Louise Gluck
taken old-and-new tribes
Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken. Louise Erdrich