#taken

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#aristocracy #background #chivalry #civilization #exalted

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#career #could #crowds #even #friends

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. ↗

— Peter Straub

#apparent #authority #call #could #events

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#any #care #closet #clothes #existence

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#beginning #between #could #immediately #misleading

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#lands #limited #more #new #soon

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#completely #i #life #my life #peace

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#i #now #photographs #previously #take

It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

#been #body #hasn #haven #i

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#entire life #had #him #i #implicitly