Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sandburg

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

Carine Roitfeld

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

C. S. Lewis

Tea should be taken in solitude.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

Miley Cyrus

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

We've taken as much on Adelaide this week as we have for the other three teams combined.

We've taken a big first step, and need to keep working at it.

Calvin Coolidge

I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.

Calvin Coolidge

One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. "Dozens of times, was the reply." "Please tell that to the President," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The President nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."

Burt Rutan

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!

Catherine McCormack

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

Kevin Spacey

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

I don't think it's to be taken too seriously,

I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.

P. J. O'Rourke

I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

I feel very, very vindicated. It's taken a long time.

I feel like I have been taken for a ride.

Jules Verne

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

David Hasselhoff

The Hoff has taken over David Hasselhoff. David Hasselhoff really doesn't know who he is anymore. Everywhere I go, it's The Hoff.

Chuck Pagano

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

Vandana Shiva

I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.

Louis C. K.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

Billy Graham

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

Billy Graham

God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.

In the days when I wasn't being taken seriously, I wore long skirts - very conservative. But now, I dress any way I want to.

Ed Greenwood

Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.

We over-passed with it. We just over-passed sometimes when we should have taken shots.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

Ram Dass

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.

Zakk Wylde

I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

Walt Mossberg

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.