“We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.” YearsCultureTakenGrantedHideousDepravityTaken For Granted Author:Roger Kimball
“It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.” YearsLongPhilosophyDreamKidsTakenCrazyStageLong TimeYears AgoLondonCheerfulnessProzacRitalin Author:Leonard Cohen
“The killing of Osama has taken place nearly 13 years after the terrorist bombings in Nairobi that led to the death of over 200 people, in an act believed to have been masterminded by Osama. His killing is an act of justice to those Kenyans who lost their lives and the many more who suffered injuries.” PeopleYearsHas BeensLostJusticeTakenKillingTerroristInjuryBombingNairobi Author:Mwai Kibaki
“For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.” YearsSometimesHardReasonSeemsFilmRoomsTakenProgressSeriousSevenScreensFilmmakerProgrammingEditingDocumentariesFestivalsSeven YearsEditsDeadlineRushingTorontoWork In ProgressPremieresSundance Author:Thom Powers
“Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.” YearsNaturalAbilityLevelsTakenExtraordinaryComic Author:Peter Capaldi
“Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingYearsWellsStillsI CanMomentsLastsSongTakenFiveNew WaysSongwriters Author:PJ Harvey
“What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.” IfsYearsMindKindMayPersonsHappensEarthValuesNationsAnswersAttitudeAcceptingMoralHellTakenMankindBabyConscienceTwentiesRegardFabricConfrontingMind SetValue Systems Author:Jesse Jackson
“Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'” KnowsYearsSaidMomentsGirlRealizingTakenSubjectsYears AgoEnglandPityMaxKnowledgeableArchaeologyPotteryPrehistoric Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“I have just repeated word for word the oath taken by George Washington 200 years ago, and the Bible on which I placed my hand is the Bible on which he placed his. It is right that the memory of Washington be with us today, not only because this is our Bicentennial Inauguration, but because Washington remains the Father of our Country.” YearsCountryHandsTodayFatherMemoriesTakenYears AgoRemainsOur CountryOathInauguration Author:George H. W. Bush
“Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence.” YearsWholeFactsHappensCarePoliticalCompanyEconomyTakenPoliticianMovedMedicalSubstitutesVotersRhetoricHousingCompetenceAutomobileInterferenceMoved OnMedical CareMeltdownsHousing MarketPolitical Rhetoric Author:Thomas Sowell
“Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty amazing. And when you see them being taken apart and you see the work that goes into keeping those things in the air, you think, "Wow!"” ThinkingYearsTakenAirMajorsPlanesAviationWowPassengers Author:Dallas Campbell
“This is, in fact, the biggest show that Marvel television has ever taken on, in the animation world. We had a real challenge that was posed to us, and that was this little, tiny art-house movie that came out last year, that I don't know if you saw, called Marvel's The Avengers, written and directed by our friend Joss Whedon, and it really set the template.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsLittlesArtRealFactsShowsLastsHouseChallengesTakenSawsWrittenTelevisionTinyLast YearAnimationAvengers Author:Jeph Loeb
“Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.” YearsRealMightChoicesFightingSleepWalksStruggleTakenTroublePaidPraiseSacredAbundanceGatesWombDoorwaysOur ChoicesSquad Author:Marge Piercy
“From what type of software could help us make a movie faster to everything else regarding the textures. Some might think, "It's probably very easy to make a film with those textures," but it's much more difficult than what it appears to be. We had to discover a faster process because otherwise it could have taken us 10 years to make it.” ThinkingYearsHelpingMightFilmEasyProcessDifficultTakenTypeFasterSoftwareTexture Author:Alex Abreu
“The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a single expression. If many photographs of a person were taken at different times, perhaps even years apart, their composite would possess that in which a single photograph is deficient.” IfsYearsPersonsDifferentLyingArtistTakenExpressionConcernedPhotographCatchingBest WorkInferiorityResemblanceDifferent TimesCompositesResemblance Is Author:Francis Galton
“Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.” YearsDoeTwoIdeasSoulSufferingDiesFightingTakenLet MeTwentiesMadIntenseTwo YearsAtmanYears Of Life Author:Swami Vivekananda
“The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to get to, honestly. It has taken me many years to get to that place and to define it visually.” IfsYearsHardCultureMy OwnTakenHonestlyPsychologicalEmanate Author:Roger Ballen
“I think we are isolating ourselves, and in so isolating ourselves, I think we're minimizing ourselves, I don't think we are taken as seriously today as we were a few years ago.” ThinkingYearsTodayTakenYears AgoMinimizing Author:Tom Daschle
“Before I was not in the television cameras every 5 minutes, I wasn't as visible, but this year I plan on being more visible to ensure that Virgin Rap Division does not lose. Although I am a very low key person, I am competitive, and with every ounce of my spirit, I will ensure that this label is taken seriously.” YearsPersonsDoeSpiritLosesTakenPlansMinutesTelevisionKeysLowsCamerasRapLabelsVisibleDivisionVirginsLow Key Author:Jermaine Dupri