#taken

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#already #always #avoid #because #beforehand

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#day #die #heart #i #oath

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#became #choose #clear #easy #going

Such a gift might be easily taken back again. ↗

— Veronica Franco

#back #easily #gift #might #such

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#charming #depths #heads #how #lose

I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#come #could #do the right thing #down #flavor

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to! ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#been #bit #bryan #chair #chat

If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me. ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#album #been #covers #deals #decided

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did. ↗

— Charlie Daniels

#asked #been #bob #columbia #come