Mildred Pierce: You look down on me because I work for a living, don't you? You always have. All right, I work. I cook food and se...ll it and make a profit on it, which, I might point out, you're not too proud to share with me. Monte Beragon: Yes, I take money from you, Mildred. But not enough to make me like kitchens or cooks. They smell of grease. Mildred Pierce: I don't notice you shrinking away from a fifty- dollar bill because it smells of grease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mildred Pierce: And just what do you do, Mr. Beragon? Monte Beragon: I loaf. Oh, in a decorative and highly charming manner.<...br />Mildred Pierce: Is that all? Monte Beragon: With me, loafing is a science.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Monte Beragon: When I'm close to you like this, there's a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is? ... />Mildred Pierce: No, what? Monte Beragon: My heart, beating like a schoolboy's. Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Veda Pierce: It's all right, Miriam, she's my mother. Miriam: No kiddin'. I didn't know you had a mother.... Veda: Everybody has a mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire,... Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman who is rearing a family of children; the woman who labors in the schoolroom; the woman who, in her retired chamber, earn...s, with her needle, the mite, which contributes to the intellectual and moral elevation of her Country; even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state;Meach and all may be animated by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever was committed to human responsibility. It is the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall be coextensive with the bounds of the earth, whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands; and those who hew the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the highest capital, will be equally honored, when its top-stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings of the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the neve...r seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »