Famous quotes containing the words takes place, book, takes and/or place:
“Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them open.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“In this place everyone talks to his own mouth.
That’s what it means to be crazy.
Those I loved best died of it
the fool’s disease.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)