Top 100 Taken With Quotes
#1. All along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
David Hockney
#2. The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.
Dixie Dean
#3. An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.
Wole Soyinka
#4. History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ...
Phyllis McGinley
#5. He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.
Thomas Brooks
#6. Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
Catherine Deneuve
#8. The wise do not buy into other people's perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person's public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul's worth.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say ... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.
Oscar Wilde
#10. Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass!
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Gerald Early
#12. We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
Michel De Montaigne
#13. Did you know that when Dave Navarro first met Carmen Electra, rumor has it that he was so taken with her beautiful eyes that he went out and bought over a hundred pairs of sunglasses for her to wear to cover her eyes whenever she left her house so no one would fall in love the way he did?
Samantha Daniels
#14. The classification above is based on a 2011 presentation by MIT grad student David Hernandez for my cosmology class. Because such simplistic taxonomies are strictly impossible, they should be taken with a large grain of salt:
Max Tegmark
#16. When I came to New York as a writer, I was taken with the idea that you're only getting in on bridges and ferries and through tunnels. The idea behind 'Takedown' is that it would be very hard to get out.
Brad Thor
#17. There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my future and Edward all my past.
Vera Brittain
#18. The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken all together, the most agreeable and most happy-looking, that I ever saw in my life.
William Cobbett
#19. Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.
Sophie Kinsella
#20. All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.
Philip Bobbitt
#21. It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were.
Robertson Davies
#22. In the quarantine tower he'd done to her what he'd sworn never to do with the machine: justify the route he'd taken with the result he hoped to achieve.
Meljean Brook
#23. I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!
Eva Longoria
#24. You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.
Robert De Niro
#25. Myron kept his eye on Patrick, but he also couldn't help but watch Big Cyndi work the crowd. Thirty seconds after she got back into action, the queue to have a photo taken with her was so long the Naked Cowboy looked at her askance. She glanced at Myron. Myron gave her a big thumbs-up. Here
Harlan Coben
#26. The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long.
Natsuo Kirino
#27. Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#28. When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
Mary MacLane
#29. Sometimes on a film you just become taken with the fact that, all right this is as rough as it gets, but I'm going to support my general and I'm going to do the very best I can for him because he's a good general and I like him.
Danny Elfman
#30. I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.
Tom Stoppard
#31. Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!
Thomas Pynchon
#32. You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.
Jeff Foxworthy
#33. I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.
Peter Berg
#34. That MacGregor and Bibighar are the place of the white and the place of the black? To get from one to the other you could not cross by a bridge but had to your courage in your hands and enter the flood and let yourself be taken with it, lead where it may.
Paul Scott
#35. The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others - or allow ourselves to be taken - with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#36. From the first Lauren Luke tutorial I watched, I was completely taken with her.
Andrea Seigel
#37. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Ronald Reagan
#38. Mr. Wiggles seems
taken with you."
"It tried to urinate on me the other day. I prefer not
to be 'taken' by something like that.
Anne Mallory
#39. The rough must be taken with the smooth.
John Green
#40. I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'
Devon Werkheiser
#41. First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.
John Selden
#42. and white wrappers, and this only changed in the 1860s. But Uncle Allan is quite taken with Dickens's and Thackeray's
Sandra Schwab
#43. Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with ... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences ... it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.
Huston Smith
#44. In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
Mireille Guiliano
#45. Do you mind? Just drape your arm around her shoulder. That's it. Yes this is good, Mr.Henshaw. Getting your picture taken with Daphne is a great way to introduce you to our set. Welcome to Santa Lucia!
Barbara Jean Coast
#46. When I do club appearances, it's girls who come up and get their photos taken with me, not just guys.
Georgia Salpa
#47. The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew the first moment I saw him that it was going to be raw, it was going to be ugly, and I was going to enjoy every damn minute of it.
C.M. Stunich
#48. My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
Alex Campbell
#49. If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.
Lysander Spooner
#50. I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
Hanneli Mustaparta
#51. And no photographs taken with the aid of flash light, either, if only out of respect for the actual light - even when there isn't any of it.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#52. We are as humans essentially products of our hardware - that is an insight that I've taken with me into the trading side.
Roy Niederhoffer
#53. And Myrnin seemed quite taken with that, Claire thought; she'd never seen him look at anyone with quite that much admiration. It surprised her that it made her feel a little ... what was that? Jealous? Couldn't be.
Rachel Caine
#54. Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.
Stephen Charnock
#55. On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
Cormac McCarthy
#56. Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.
Spencer Wells
#57. I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
Madame De La Fayette
#58. I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.
Mary Oliver
#59. The first step of any journey must be taken with daring in your heart. Don't let fear clog your arteries.
T.S. Welti
#60. Ah, dear, sweet Eden. To quote the great Rhett Butler, you need to be fucked and by someone who knows how."
"What version of Gone with the Wind did you grow up watching?"
"There are a lot of liberties taken with Spanish subtitles.
Karina Halle
#61. Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.
Julia Child
#62. I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
Gavin Rossdale
#63. I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
Vince Gill
#64. I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.
Lucinda Williams
#65. I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.
Gertrude Stein
#66. The thought of filming in London was a big draw because I could stay in my house. I read it, and I was really taken with it because it felt at once very unapologetic for what it was, which is a romantic comedy. But at the same time, a little spiky and a little truthful.
Simon Pegg
#67. Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.
Henry David Thoreau
#68. Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
Patti Smith
#69. I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.
Per Petterson
#70. At first when the Paladin heard us tell about the glories of the Royal Audience he was broken-hearted because he was not taken with us to it; next, his talk was full of what he would have done if he had been there; and within two days he was telling what he did do when he was there.
Mark Twain
#71. It's certain that the thing a man's heart is most taken with and set upon is his God.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#72. Better than Medicine A glass of bitter beer or pale ale, taken with the principal meal of the day, does more good, and less harm, than any medicine the physician can prescribe. Dr Carpenter in The Scottish Review, (1750)
Hugh Morrison
#73. SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
Ambrose Bierce
#74. I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
Robert Matsui
#75. One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.
Ted Cruz
#76. But the thing that ... that I touched ... " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know," said Herrick.
Margery Williams
#77. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Helen Rowland
#78. The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
W. H. Auden
#79. entropy taken with a negative sign', which by the way is not my invention. It happens to be precisely the thing on which Boltzmann's original argument turned.
Erwin Schrodinger
#80. People will tell you that this is just the way things go around here when someone is taken with the madness. Sometimes that means losing the May Queen and her convertible too.
Kate Karyus Quinn
#81. These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S. adherence to international law and U.N. resolutions? The result is a kind of schizophrenic picture of the United States.
Edward Said
#82. My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
Branford Marsalis
#83. I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department.
Neil Gaiman
#84. Knowledge is Power, but when it is taken with imagination it becomes more powerful than Knowledge itself
Avinash Rai
#85. Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.
Henri Nouwen
#86. All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
Samuel Richardson
#87. Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
Henri Bergson
#88. An action taken with positive thoughts will never produce negative results.
Debasish Mridha
#89. A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution
Claude C. Hopkins
#90. There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives.
Ron Baratono
#91. Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.
John Newton
#92. No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Albrecht Durer
#93. I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away from you. You can have money, you can have fame, but in the end, it can be taken from you. But education will always be there to help you.
Shamcey Supsup
#94. We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.
Horace
#95. Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds, blue for the sky, silver for the jets, and brushes, and thinner.
Arundhati Roy
#96. I wouldn't have taken him. Not because I don't believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn't want to deal with all of it. [ ... ] It's not going to be totally smooth things will happen.
Tony Dungy
#97. [ ... ] we drank each other up with so much yearning and need that afterward I felt myself drained of all the things the Chairman had taken from me, and yet filled with all that I had taken from him.
Arthur Golden
#98. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!
Hayao Miyazaki
#99. I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail against the pain you have to suffer as a result. Or scream and rant with the pain, and wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure ...
Shane MacGowan
#100. The simple fact was, he loved her. Loved her with every breath in his body, every cell in his blood, every bone and organ he possessed. He loved her to the depths of his very soul. Had only taken five minutes after she'd walked away to realize it. She
Gena Showalter
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