The Great South Beach of Long Island,... though wild and desolate, as it wants the bold bank,... possesses but half the grandeur o...f Cape Cod in my eyes, nor is the imagination contented with its southern aspect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an except...ionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Again and again, I struggled though the storm. Once I fainted--and it wasn't in the script. I was hauled to the studio on a sled, ...thawed out with hot tea, and then brought back to the blizzard, where the others were waiting. We filmed all day and all night, stopping only to eat standing near a bonfire. We never went inside.... The blizzard never slackened.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are fighting in the quarrel of civilization against barbarism, of liberty against tyranny. Germany has become a menace to the w...hole world. She is the most dangerous enemy of liberty now existing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sea is very old. The sea is the face of Mary,... without miracles or rage or unusual hope, grown rough and wrinkled with incurable age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exiled from his friends, is kept too long distressed... in an island, sea swept, in the sea midst, a forest island, haunt of a spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I must tell you, I was given to understand in my childhood, that the British island from which my forefathers came, was no lot...us-garden, no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round, no, but a cold foggy mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air, but robust men and virtuous women, and these of a wonderful fibre and endurance; that their best parts were slowly revealed; their virtues did not come out until they quarrelled: they did not strike twelve the first time; good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long, and little good of them till you had seen them in action; that in prosperity they were moody and dumpish, but in adversity they were grand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From an old ruined fort on Staten Island, I have loved to watch all day some vessel whose name I had read in the morning through t...he telegraph glass, when she first came upon the coast, and her hull heaved up and glistened in the sun, from the moment when the pilot and most adventurous news-boats met her, past the Hook, and up the narrow channel of the wide bay, till she was boarded by the health officer, and took her station at quarantine, or held on her unquestioned course to the wharves of New York. It was interesting, too, to watch the less adventurous newsman, who made his assault as the vessel swept through the Narrows, defying plague and quarantine law, and, fastening his little cockboat to her huge side, clambered up and disappeared in the cabin. And then I could imagine what momentous news was being imparted by the captain, which no American ear had ever heard, that Asia, Africa, Europe--were all sunk; for which at length he pays the price, and is seen descending the ship's side with his bundle of newspapers,... to dispose of his wares to the highest bidder, and we shall ere long read something startling,--"By the latest arrival,"M"by the good ship--M."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »