Take Me Quotes - Page 34

• The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

  John Krasinski

  Perfect, Meals, Gadgets

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• I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk.

  Shane Koyczan

  Fall, Useless, Want

  FaceBook post by Shane Koyczan from Aug 30, 2012

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• If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.

  Lance Armstrong

  Thinking, Racing, Take Me Back

  "Lance Armstrong: If I Had To Do It All Over, I’d Probably Cheat Again" by Maxwell Strachan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Long, Pieces

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I would love to spend time with Donald Trump. I would tell him what I think. He would take me out in 30 minutes.

  Eric Walters

  Thinking, Minutes, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I remember after 9/11, I started - I was working quite a bit in Vancouver. And then I realized I would go to catch my flight, and it would take me like 20 minutes to get cleared to fly, like, every time. I'm like, what is going on?

  Mahershala Ali

  Vancouver, Remember, Flight

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, Heart, Years

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.

  Elle King

  Hard Work, People, Work Harder

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• This album [Give the People What They Want] has almost been in the making for almost three years now. When we first began on it, my mother was sick. When she passed away, I got on stage and played that night. The music helped take me away.

  Sharon Jones

  Mother, Night, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right.

  Tim Kinsella

  Writing, Long, Different

  Source: smilepolitely.com

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• Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent. It probably takes me longer to write things, but it's very important to me that the writing itself be good.

  Shelby Steele

  Nice, Writing, Giving

  Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.

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• I've always been somebody that it takes me longer to learn things, but once I learn them... I'm like a quarterback that plays best in the fourth quarter.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Play, Quarters, Fourth Quarter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

  Alexandre Dumas

  Helping, Weak, Kitties

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• Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.

  Scott Lynch

  Eye, Ideas, Gentleman

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.181, Del Rey

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• I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Night, My Boyfriend

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.156, Egmont UK

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• Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Sunset, Shoes

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.138, Nan A. Talese

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• What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Few Words, Inquiry

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.210, Vintage

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• You the Dark-Hunter?" Kyrian arched a brow. "You the flunky?" "I don't like your tone." "And I dont't like you. Now that we've dispensed with the introductions and have declared our mutual distaste for one another, why don't you take me to the one who holds your leash?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Hunters, Tone

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• Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I need you to make things real. Walk inside me without silence, Kill the past and change the tense. Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring; Take me places that make more sense.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Heart, Past

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• Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Fiction, Down And

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• Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

  Michael Cunningham

  Rain, Night, Wind

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.135, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

  S. J. Perelman

  Doors, Secret, Meals

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• I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Phoenix and Ashes: Elemental Masters #3”, p.132, Penguin

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• Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come home. Take me out of your address book, William

  Gena Showalter

  Book, Home, Warrior

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.230, HQN Books

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• Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Joy, Sensual

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.77, Soho Press

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