All Quotes

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
‐‐ John Eldredge

It takes every ounce of my concentration and focus every night to be in character, to sing in good voice, to not fall off the platform. I use my peripheral vision more than I have ever used it in my life.
‐‐ Ruthie Ann Miles

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
‐‐ Judith Rossner

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.
‐‐ Andrew Natsios

It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.
‐‐ Russell Pearce

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
‐‐ Jacques Yves Cousteau

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.
‐‐ Morris Hite

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
‐‐ John Eldredge

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
‐‐ Michael Apted

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
‐‐ Robert Herrick

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
‐‐ Eddie Bernice Johnson

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
‐‐ Karrie Webb

It takes heart to be in political life.
‐‐ Pat Nixon

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
‐‐ Dean Inge

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
‐‐ Chris Tucker

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
‐‐ Jackie Stewart

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

It takes many years to be a great comedian.
‐‐ Don Rickles

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.
‐‐ Josh Brolin

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.
‐‐ Robert Sheckley

It takes me a long time to make a big purchase.
‐‐ Jessica Chastain

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
‐‐ Earl Sweatshirt

It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.
‐‐ Deborah Eisenberg

It takes me a while to come out of myself and get to know people.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

It takes me a while to get my appetite going when I wake up early.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
‐‐ Bart Starr

It takes me ages to write stuff.
‐‐ Chris Lilley

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.
‐‐ Chris Abani

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.
‐‐ Terry McMillan

It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
‐‐ Alan Furst

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.
‐‐ Julie Christie

It takes minutes to play, but 'Unmanned' sticks with you for long after the credits roll. As a part of a two-man team for an unarmed drone, you experience one day in the life of this man who's tired of staring through the camera of a drone flying around the Middle East and keeping his finger on the trigger.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds' thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
‐‐ Jim Woodring

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.
‐‐ Charlie Kimball

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
‐‐ Epictetus

It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our souls.
‐‐ Duncan D. Hunter

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
‐‐ Brooks Atkinson

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
‐‐ Harvey Milk

It takes no imagination to live within your means.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett