Take Me Quotes - Page 25

• Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

  Al Lewis

  Friday, Sunset, Kids

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• It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Years, Months

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• When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Awkward, Want

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• I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Guy, Parent, Insanity

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• I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Agency, One Day, Acting

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• You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

  Kim Kardashian

  Knows

  "From Kanye West to Kris Humphries--Ann Curry Didn't Let Kim Kardashian Off the Hook With Anything on the Today Show This Morning!". www.glamour.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

  Bernie Mac

  Laughing, Flip, Needs

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mother, Sibling, Teaching

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• Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

  John Piper

  Christian Inspirational, Car, Want

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• The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

  John Cleese

  Christmas, Father, Swim

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• Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

  Bob Dylan

  Beach, Memories, Crazy

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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• I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Home, Way

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Death should take me while I am in the mood.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Mood, Should

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1858). “The Blithedale romance: By Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.39

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• Take me down to the bar! We'll drink breakfast together!

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Together, Bars

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• Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

  Dorothy Parker

  Witty, Order, Usual

  New Yorker, 4 Feb. 1928 See Gus Kahn 6; Political Slogans 3

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• Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

  Marquis de Sade

  Life, Take Me As I Am, Kill Me

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• A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Insightful, Stories

  David Sedaris (2010). “Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Fall, Sleep, Long

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• First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Bikers, Body, Mocha

  Kelley Armstrong (2013). “Omens: The Cainsville Series”, p.337, Random House Canada

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• The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow. "I've got to go back, haven't I?" "That is up to you." "I've got a choice?" "Oh yes." Dumbledore smiled at him. "We are in King's Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to…let's say…board a train." "And where would it take me?" "On," said Dumbledore simply.

  J. K. Rowling

  Kings, Fall, Thinking

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• You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur

  Marc Levy

  Thinking, Goes On, May

  Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Michel. In my dreams, you come and get me. You take me by the hand and you lead me away. This life is too much for me to bear. I look at the key and I long for you and for the past. For the innocent, easy days before the war. I know now my scars will never heal. I hope my son will forgive me. He will never know. No one will ever know.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Dream, War, Son

  Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.261, Macmillan

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• And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Memories, Regret, Broken

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.62, The Floating Press

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• That’s it,” she said, balling her hands in fists. “I’m not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.

  Tessa Dare

  Hands, Scotland, Honor

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• Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.

  Jacob Grimm

  Art, Children, Men

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales”, p.176, Ageless Reads

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