Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand

Well, it takes a certain amount of money. And I've got to see pictures of the person ahead of time. If I don't like the way the person looks I won't do it.
Helmut Newton

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
Marvin Gaye

I know what it takes to put on a good show for the fans.
Justin Timberlake

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
Ibrahim Babangida

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
Phillips Brooks

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
Augusten Burroughs

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.
Maxim Gorky

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
Paul Bryant

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
Paul Bryant

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
O. J. Simpson

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
Chris Tucker

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
Denis Leary

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
Jesse Ventura

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