All Quotes

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.
‐‐ Aileen Quinn

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.
‐‐ Claudette Colbert

It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.
‐‐ Jamie Farr

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
‐‐ Karen Thompson Walker

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
‐‐ Bela Lugosi

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.
‐‐ Heather Mills

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.
‐‐ John F. Kerry

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.
‐‐ Hope Solo

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
‐‐ Cynthia Kadohata

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
‐‐ Bela Lugosi

It took several years of trial and error, soul-searching and hard work to shape the ROI program into the ROI Community. In the first few years, we got to see the power of these gatherings and the resulting connections that spanned the globe. It inspired us to think about how we could transform an annual gathering into a year-round community.
‐‐ Lynn Schusterman

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy's autograph. I'd tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, 'People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.' But she couldn't really grasp it.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.
‐‐ Helen Reddy

It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.
‐‐ Jonathan Frid

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
‐‐ Jean M. Auel

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
‐‐ Caspar Weinberger

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
‐‐ Thomas Sankara

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.
‐‐ Sherry Stringfield

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?
‐‐ James E. Rogers

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
‐‐ Ted Hughes

It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.
‐‐ Bob Kane

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
‐‐ Antoine Lavoisier

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.
‐‐ David Crystal

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

It took two months from the day my fiance proposed to my first Google search for 'wedding planning: how?' Now, let me interrupt myself here and share how much I hate using the word 'fiance.' It's so fancy, and it's hard not to sound like a jerk saying it. Which is why I will be using my own word for fiance: gloob.
‐‐ Ellie Kemper

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.
‐‐ Ellen Malcolm

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
‐‐ Frank Carlucci

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.
‐‐ Peter Fonda

It took us a lot of man hours to get that bloody white hair out, so it's good to get rid of it.
‐‐ Tom Felton

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.
‐‐ Ben Bradlee

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
‐‐ Mitch McConnell

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'
‐‐ Luka Sulic

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.
‐‐ Ruth Handler

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.
‐‐ Greg Ginn

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.
‐‐ Robert Gibbs

It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.
‐‐ Ryan Hall

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
‐‐ Mark Hoppus

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.
‐‐ Elliott Smith

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

It truly has been an honor to play in Indianapolis. I do love it here. I love the fans, and I will always enjoy having played for such a great team.
‐‐ Peyton Manning

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.
‐‐ Tawni O'Dell

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
‐‐ John George Nicolay

It turned out it was really easy to create commercial stock footage.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.
‐‐ Richard Smalley

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
‐‐ Andrzej Wajda