Take Me Quotes - Page 14

• Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what, when, where, why of the poem), I can get to my main interest, which is the language, and where it wants to take me. If I can establish the poem's occasion in the title, then so much the better for my freedom to associate.

  Anna Journey

  Titles, Want, Narrative

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

  Panda Bear

  Drug, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.

  Peter Orner

  Order, Years, Titles

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and I know if I tried to write those books the way I wrote the stories it would take me years to finish.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I will never outline. I let the characters take me." C'mon, man - I outline the story, but it's only like one page. It's a list of possible reversals in the story, like things where everything will just change because of this certain reveal or this certain action. Then I start really digging into the character because, to me, I don't care what the story is.

  Matt de la Pena

  Writing, Character, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can’t say that there are “things” that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there’s a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them now.

  Marianne Williamson

  Games, Miracle, Needs

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a prophet in one's own country - well - in a way it works for me too: you see - this might be called my home town - well of all the old friends and acquaintances not one takes me seriously as a photographer - not one has asked me to show my work... (On returning to San Francisco)

  Tina Modotti

  Country, Home, San Francisco

  Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Song, Mean, Who I Am

  13 Copy quote

• When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.

  Jodie Foster

  Pet, Stores, Saddles

  4 Copy quote

• For all you know, the way I act could very well be an act. Or maybe it isn't. I could be the most dangerous, most vicious one of the bunch, because no one takes me seriously!

  Stevie Richards

  Way, Vicious, Bunch

  4 Copy quote

• I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Years, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were all these weird ladies selling their antiques. We call them "eclectic" now. But it was really amazing that I was exposed to that when I was younger. Now that I have my own taste, I understand it more.

  Jason Wu

  Mom, Taste, Antiques

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I cry really easily. If I see a butterfly, I'll practically burst into tears. So it's really hard for me to yell at people, because I'll feel so guilty about it. But if I don't, then they don't take me seriously and it's this endless cycle.

  Grimes

  Butterfly, People, Tears

  "Tavi Gevinson". Interview with Grimes, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Boston, President, Realizing

  17 Copy quote

• O Christ, my life, possess me utterly.
  Take me and make a little Christ of me.
  If I am anything but thy father's son,
  'Tis something not yet from the darkness won.
  Oh, give me light to live with open eyes.
  Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Eye, Son

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.12938, e-artnow

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

  Mark Helprin

  Children, Father, School

  4 Copy quote

• A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'

  Tom Colicchio

  Couple, Wine, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my love! Through the pangs of death, say-my God, my love! Through all the evils under the sun, say-my God, my love! Thou art here, I see Thee. Thou art with me, I feel Thee. I am Thine, take me. I am not of the world's but Thine, leave not then me.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Evil, Sun

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

  Chris Bauer

  Wind, Fans, Outsiders

  Source: collider.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Directing takes a lot longer than acting. This was about seven years in development, and then two and a half years with pre-production, production, post and now the release. Not that I have people banging on my door to star in movies, but it takes me out of the acting game for a longer chunk of time.

  David Schwimmer

  Stars, Doors, Years

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

  Harry Callahan

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  13 Copy quote

• My uncle Claude was my favorite uncle he was also my godfather. He and I were really, really close. He used to take me to see cowboy movies all the time when I was a little boy because I loved cowboy movies. He got a cowboy name for me, which was Smokey Joe. So from the time I was three years old if people asked me what my name was I didn't tell them my name was William, I told them my name was Smokey Joe.

  Smokey Robinson

  Uncles, Cowboy, Boys

  "Smokey Robinson - A Poet That You Knoweth". Interview with Chelsea Battle, lasentinel.net. September 12, 2012.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because I like to walk around at two or three in the morning, looking at shop windows. The cops take me to the station and fingerprint me. But I wouldn't call that hanging out.

  Emo Philips

  Morning, Two, People

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.

  Emo Philips

  Laughter, Artist, Men

  Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Night, House, Action

  8 Copy quote