Keeping Left Takes

Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:

    And this school wasn’t keeping anymore,
    Unless for penitents who took their seat
    Upon its doorsteps as at mercy’s feet
    To make up for a lack of meditation.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)