Quotes of: Took Keyword

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

Michael Morpurgo

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Carry Nation

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Gene Tierney

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Jessica Savitch

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

Ed Sheeran

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

Fay Godwin

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

Fay Godwin

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

Claire Danes

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Cornelia Funke

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Dolly Parton

It's a breath you took too late. It's a death that's worse than fate.

Elvis Costello

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

Ben Howard

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

George Papandreou

My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.

G-Eazy

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

Heath Ledger

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

Julia Sweeney

My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.

Doug Liman

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

David McCallum

When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.

Jane Leavy