Take Me Quotes - Page 10

• I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

  Shirley Henderson

  Lonely, Jobs, Real

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

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• Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

  Howard Finster

  Shoes, Long, Six

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• My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.

  David Cone

  Fall, Careers, Guy

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• I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.

  David Cassidy

  Horse, Years, Giving

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• I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

  Antonio Banderas

  Couple, Real, Play

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• Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

  John Mellencamp

  Religious, Grandma, Hands

  Song: Rain on the Scarecrow

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• For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Past, Years

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley”

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• You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

  Sarah McLachlan

  Friendship, Angel, Questions Asked

  Song: Sweet Surrender, Album: Surfacing

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• It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.

  Armie Hammer

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

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

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• I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.

  Eva Herzigova

  Pottery, Planets

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• A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

  Sally Hawkins

  Fall, Character, Long

  "Sally Hawkins: 'I hope some sort of magic will kick in'" by Sally Hawkins, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.

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• Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Book, Writing, Months

  "He's a Man of Many Words". Interview with Sandra G. Boodman, www.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2008.

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• My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.

  Hillary Scott

  Grandmother, Eggs, Grandparent

  "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

  Gordon Strachan

  Thinking, Two, Celtic

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• And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

  George Saunders

  Book, Writing, Mean

  "George Saunders and Andy Ward". www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

  John Glenn

  Moon, Leader, Rewards

  "John Glenn, a pioneering former US astronaut, has died" by Dave Mosher and Reuters, www.businessinsider.com. December 8, 2016.

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• I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

  Ricky Ponting

  Moving, Golf, Swings

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

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• If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Children, Party

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• I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

  Thierry Henry

  Football, Real, Play

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• Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.

  Eddie Money

  Baby, Home, Musical

  Song: Take Me Home Tonight Be My Baby

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• Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.

  Dean Martin

  Girl, Wish, Select

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• Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.

  Bob Dylan

  Magic, Ships, Outer Space

  Song: Mr. Tambourine Man

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• My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

  Sean Hannity

  Blessed, Imagination, Has Beens

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• When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

  Sara Blakely

  Mom, School, Ideas

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• Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

  Jodie Foster

  Mother, Kids, Appreciate

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