Taken Quotes

People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm – a plastic arm – be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

There is a close connection between socio-political development.