If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Ursula K. Le Guin

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
David Hockney

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
David Hockney

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?
Pearl White

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
Amy Tan

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
Little Richard

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
Dizzy Gillespie

What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.
Jonathan Kozol

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
Catherine Deneuve

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

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

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
Wynton Marsalis

I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.
Story Musgrave

One always wonders about roads not taken.
Warren Christopher

I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
Jack Chick

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
Wayne Newton

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
Bonnie Blair

Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
Veronica Franco

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.
Pete Sampras