Take Me Quotes

• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Adventure

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.

  Kitty Kelley

  Powerful, Book, Writing

  "Kitty Kelley discusses Oprah bio". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2010.

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• See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Dream, Rest In Peace

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• I can't sleep very well at night. It takes me a while to get to sleep. I could just be nocturnal. I have my nighttime witching hour where I hang out, listen to records or watch TV.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Sleep, Night, Nocturnal

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• Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Adventure

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• You see, my mind takes me far,
  but my heart dreams of return.

  Henri Cole

  Dream, Heart, Mind

  Henri Cole (2014). “Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I’ll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back.

  Sylvia Day

  Needs, Want, Take Me Back

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.182, Penguin

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• Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

  Chesty Puller

  Military, Real, Marine

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• Sometimes I start with the beat. Sometimes I can write something down and it takes me a while to figure out how I want to say it or the beat I want to say it to. I definitely like to live the experiences that I cover.

  Cakes da killa

  Writing, Want, Down And

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy,
  Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home,
  It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago
  Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Sweet, Home

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

  Wendell Berry

  Reading, Years, Grandfather

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food”, p.74, Counterpoint Press

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• You know, I keep having this really weird feeling that you’re going to take me someplace later and tie me up so that your friends can come laugh at me. (Channon) Does that happen to you often? (Sebastian) No, never, but this night has the makings for a Twilight Zone episode. (Channon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Twilight, Night, Ties

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• MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

  Emily Dickinson

  Running, Blue, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 16, 2011

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• who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Flower, Moon

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Dream, Home

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• Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Son, Papa, Arms

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

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• If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

  Mark Twain

  Two, Giving, Design

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• So just look mean and don’t make eye contact with anyone. (Syn) Gee, hon, you take me to the most wonderful places. (Shahara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Eye, Looks

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• I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• But I had no plans to end my own life, and accidents couldn't be predicted. Neither could murder, unless my aunt and uncle were planning to take me out themselves.

  Rachel Vincent

  Uncles, Aunt, Planning

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.100, Harlequin

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• Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere?

  Eoin Colfer

  Nice, Scare, Cubes

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• What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.

  Oswald Chambers

  Morning, Prayer, Blessed

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