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

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.
Cher

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu

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

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
Karl Kraus

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
Derek Jeter

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

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

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
Mahmoud Abbas

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach

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 am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Haruki Murakami

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
Stephen Sondheim

Time takes all and gives all.
Giordano Bruno