Takes

Famous quotes containing the word takes:

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“I don’t think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)

“There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)