All Quotes

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
‐‐ Irrfan Khan

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
‐‐ Al Pacino

It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.
‐‐ Mario Balotelli

It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.
‐‐ Dave Pirner

It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.
‐‐ Alice Barrett

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
‐‐ Bob Marley

It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?
‐‐ Craig Venter

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.
‐‐ George Lindsey

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
‐‐ Ferdinand Foch

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
‐‐ Tom Seaver

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
‐‐ Eddie Cantor

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.
‐‐ Clea Duvall

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.
‐‐ Gian Carlo Menotti

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.
‐‐ Jessye Norman

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
‐‐ Jean Anouilh

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
‐‐ Michael Harrington

It takes a certain personality to thrive as a member of the House.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
‐‐ Fannie Hurst

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
‐‐ Sally Ride

It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.
‐‐ Rico Love

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
‐‐ Jacque Fresco

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
‐‐ Sally Ride

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
‐‐ Bill Hybels

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

It takes a great man to be a good listener.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
‐‐ Eric Betzig

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.
‐‐ Donna McKechnie

It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
‐‐ D'Brickashaw Ferguson

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.
‐‐ Grace Slick

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
‐‐ Jack Johnson

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.
‐‐ Joseph O'Neill

It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany was a sad example. It was a world leader in the sciences for more than a century, until its science base was demolished during the Nazi era, and the country ceded its position to the United States.
‐‐ Torsten Wiesel

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
‐‐ James Whistler

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

It takes a long time to become young.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.
‐‐ Marjorie Scardino

It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.
‐‐ David Morrissey

It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.
‐‐ Dave Gahan

It takes a long time to get a film made.
‐‐ Grant Heslov

It takes a long time to get a reputation for quality. There are people in our industry, they're basically copiers. Look at the cars on the streets. They all look alike. But if you put quality into a product, then have it validated, you have huge credibility.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
‐‐ Diana Ross

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
‐‐ John Leonard

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
‐‐ Alice Koller

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.
‐‐ Stellan Skarsgard

It takes a long time to publish a book.
‐‐ Kenneth Koch

It takes a long time to understand nothing.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
‐‐ Dana Spiotta