Take Me Quotes - Page 4

• My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Mom, Dad, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Smart, Thinking, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.

  Steve Martin

  Imagination, Want, Littles

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• The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

  Yoko Ono

  Ocean, Boat, Window

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• My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

  J. K. Rowling

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

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• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  Gary Oldman

  Children, Drawing, Car

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• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  Yannick Noah

  Unbearable, Payment, Taxes

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• Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

  Stevie Nicks

  Good Day, Fighting, Rocks

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• I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.

  Rachel Nichols

  Summer, Cutting, Smell

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• I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

  Mike Myers

  Mother, Memories, Character

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• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Morning, Heart, Dark

  "Interview: Michael Morpurgo, Running Wild". Interview With Lisa Bower, www.altblackpool.co.uk. February 27, 2017.

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• I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

  Lea Michele

  Mother, Children, Sibling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Schedules, Detours, Dinner

  "Matthew McConaughey Throws Muscle Behind New Apparel Collection". Interview with Jean E. Palmieri, wwd.com. February 14, 2013.

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• But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

  Demetri Martin

  Dream

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

  Robert Orben

  Mind, Tvs, Bother

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• My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

  James Otis

  Sister, Lightning, Dear God

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• Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

  Alton Brown

  Our World, Ice, Fascinating

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• I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Mind, Serious

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• I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

  John C. Reilly

  Skills, Challenges, Trying

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• Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

  Beatrix Potter

  Lying, Flower, Eye

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• Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

  Antonio Porchia

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Use

  Antonio Porchia, “Aphorisms”

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• My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.

  Tyler Perry

  Mother, Church Choir, Grace

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• I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

  Ron Perlman

  Mouths, Direct, Ifs

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• I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

  James Patterson

  Years, Ideas, Office

  "James Patterson: The world's busiest best-selling writer". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. March 23, 2012.

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