So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

It took us a lot of man hours to get that bloody white hair out, so it's good to get rid of it.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

I never took any vocal training.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I took back my life.

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years. Following these warnings and these calls, anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again.

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.