Top 121 Toll Quotes

The year-round nature of women’s basketball takes its toll and the financial opportunity with my team in Russia would have been irresponsible to turn down. They offered to pay me to rest and I’ve decided to take them up on it.

All the negatives, the flags for the personal fouls and silly stuff after the play, that takes a toll. People don’t want to be a part of that.

I had a spine problem. I did a lot of stunts and fights in Hindi cinema, had falls from horses… all that took a toll on my health.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

There’s kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don’t pet her for 10 minutes she’ll bother you for six hours.

Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

To have a natural, healthy glow, you need to spend as much time as you can outside – if you stay locked up in an office, it can take a toll on your mind and body.

The game takes a toll on your body.

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn’t go into it, because it’s demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

‘Fall Of A City’ aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.

The terrible toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire world is a reminder of the interconnection and interdependence of all of our human rights.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

I was born with a heart murmur. When I was 21, the stress of the career and traveling – the lack of sleep and just not eating right – had taken its toll. Our schedules had been pretty crazy for about three years, and there was no rest at all. So in order to continue on and, you know, have a life, I had to fix it.

I’ve gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you’re not getting away with it, it’s taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

If you don’t enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don’t enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

Anyone who has to be accountable in a time when resources are shrinking, where transparency is necessary, where the pressures are greater, is going to find that it takes a toll.

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

The toll of COVID-19 on the state of New Jersey cannot be understated.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world… the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

We don’t think there is any money to be made in payments anymore. The entire business model of extracting a toll or having time delays around the movement of value is going away completely.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I’ve seen actors acting off the sets, too.

But obviously captaincy is a long process. It takes its toll as time goes on.

I am a human being and the bashing has taken its toll.

Today’s gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans’ pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Films are fun, and I want to do comic roles. Daily soaps are interesting, too, but the travel to and from the sets takes a toll.

Although he loved performing live, and was great at it – Jeff was as solid on stage, as he was in the studio – performing for two hours at a stretch really took a physical toll. It was very hard on him.

I thought the ’60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

There was a phase when I would just loaf around, doing nothing. It had put my mom under a lot of stress. I knew her stress stemmed from her love for me, yet I never paid attention to her feelings. When it finally hit me that my idleness was taking a toll on her, I was genuinely sad and depressed.

Proactively working to develop mental strength increases your resilience to stress and reduces the toll it takes on you both physically and mentally.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don’t see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

What’s fun about chefs is that they’re big guys, often, and they might not look like the most athletic people, but they’re very powerful people, and they have tremendous stamina… It takes a toll on their body, too.

Once the shooting for a film starts, you have to go abroad for it but your family is here. The constant shuttling takes a toll on you, and so I won’t pursue roles in English films but yes, if I am offered a good role I may consider it.

I’m like a toll booth. Sooner or later, you have to come to me.

Five has sort of had his own little life aside from everyone. He spent 45 years in the apocalypse, and that took a toll on him and was a big part of his overall trauma.

I was in the Spurs team and in the Ireland team when I got it and I admit it took its toll on me when I came back. But look, there were many, many people worse off than me.

You play 162 days, and you play every day, or you try to play every day, and it’s going to take a toll on your body. But that’s what we’re out here for. We’re out here to play.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

I think I’m in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll – I get back pain!

Between 50 overs and 20 overs, there is a big difference, because there is 30 extra overs of fielding and six extra overs to bowl, and that can take its toll.

Tolling… has a place. We’re not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don’t think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues.

It is very difficult to shoot mythological shows. The costumes and the make up are very time consuming… It definitely takes a toll on the body.

These NBA seasons are such a grind; it really takes a toll on your body.

Temperament can really take a toll on the voice. If you get tight in your body with the acting, then you can get tight in your voice. And then you can get tired, and you can damage yourself vocally.

Allowing the big dogs to create a toll lane for public education, public interest and government programming, and to make it more costly to sell products online, will be bad for Black women and our communities.

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I’d rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

I have cared for loved ones nearly all my life, so when I look in the mirror, I see a caregiver looking back at me. It began when I was 12 years old and my father became ill. Taking care of him took a toll on our entire family, my mother most of all.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who’s far removed from your personality.

How powerful it is to surprise a total stranger with a really nice act: buy them a cup of coffee, pay their toll. It makes their day; it makes your day.

It is very hard leaving home for life on the road. The toll that it takes is actually immeasurable, and you can think all you want about what it does to your relationships, but the way it actually plays out is very deep and very unique to those personalities that are involved.

No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads.

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Skating becomes more important to me every year. It’s obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain, and I think because of that, competing becomes much more difficult. That’s why those who stick around are always so appreciative of others’ skating because we know how much work goes into it.

Doing comedy takes much lesser toll on you as a person. The overall exertion is not as much as a serious film like ‘Pink.’

Caring burns a lot of fuel – psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It’s called carer burn-out.