Take Me Quotes - Page 23

• Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• I'm a huge Star Trek fan. I've seen all the shows, I've seen all the movies, but ultimately I just want a 2-hour movie that takes me to another time and place - something that entertains me.

  Damon Lindelof

  Stars, Fans, Want

  "Damon Lindelof Talks Star Trek Into Darkness, the Editing Process, Why They Changed the Order of the First Two Scenes, Trek 3, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2013.

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• My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.

  David Cassidy

  Mom, Years, Height

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• I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

  Paul Gauguin

  Writing, Moon, Way

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• God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?

  David Sedaris

  God, Night, Mind

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Hate, Men, Aging

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• It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

  Wendell Berry

  Reading, Years, World

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

  Gloria Estefan

  People, Everyday, Library

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• My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Thinking, Surprise, Teach

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• Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

  Jim Hodges

  Work, Work Out, Next

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• A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

  Susan Butcher

  Fighting, Want, Awful

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• Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

  Emily Dickinson

  Tired, Forever, Valentine's Day

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• I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to.

  Harry Caray

  Song, Thinking, Ballgame

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• I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspirational, Moon, Ready

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• Take me to the pilot of your soul.

  Elton John

  Expression, Soul, Pilots

  Song: Take Me To The Pilot Elton John Bernie Taupin

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• If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Gun, Order, Giving

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  Victoria Beckham

  Children, Husband, Freak

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.

  Paul Ford

  Snacks, Numbers, Feelings

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• I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

  Theophilus London

  Dad, Clothes, Manhattan

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• I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

  Criss Jami

  Art, Enjoy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.19, Criss Jami

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• Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.

  Debbie Ford

  Rivers, Giving, Surrender

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• I'll let life take me where it will.

  Matthias Schoenaerts

  "Cannes 2012: Is Matthias Schoenaerts This Year's Jean Dujardin?". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I've made mistakes, I clearly did, but what I was hoping for was that some other dumbass would get on the front page and take me off the hook. I miss Lane Kiffin.

  Bruce Pearl

  Mistake, Missing, Hook

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• I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

  Keri Russell

  Home, Wish, Brooklyn

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Art, Years, Long

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