Taken Quotes

We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them.

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously.

I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.

I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

The visible and near-ultraviolet emission spectrum of the CH radical has been known ever since spectra of an ordinary Bunsen burner have been taken.

Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.