Takes

Famous quotes containing the word takes:

“It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.”
—Edgar Z. Friedenberg (b. 1921)

“Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)