Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
Stephen Fry

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
Stephen Fry

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson

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

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

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

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
Studs Terkel

I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.
David Cross

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

I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.
Roger Daltrey

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

It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.
Grace Slick

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

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
Seth MacFarlane

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

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Leo Burnett

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Jean Baudrillard