It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
David Hume

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Bruce Barton

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
Neil Gaiman

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
Ralph W. Sockman

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
Nicholas Sparks

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott

It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James Thurber

I just go where the guitar takes me.
Angus Young

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
Tony Blair

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
Angus Young

Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
John Cusack

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
Billie Holiday

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Karl Von Clausewitz