If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness When everything is as it was in my childhood... Violent, vivid, and of infinite possibility: That the sun and the moon broke over my head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in ...it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few dis...cover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw the Arab map. It resembled a mare shuffling on,... dragging its history like saddlebags, nearing its tomb and the pitch of hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It's like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, sh...avings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been b...rought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be... with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If ever I should condescend to prose, I'll write poetical commandments, which... Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those That went before; in these I shall enrich My text with many things that no one knows, And carry precept to the highest pitch: I'll call the work 'Longinus o'er a Bottle, Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It might easily be made a physical impossibility for criminals, hereditary paupers, imbeciles, profligates, and others suffering f...rom gross bodily or mental defects, to propagate their failings and their vices. In no long time our prisons, workhouses, and asylums would be empty.... Prostitution would become a forgotten calling. Pauperism would cease. Disease would be almost unknown. By the same methods which breeders adopt, our race could be raised to the highest pitch of perfection and of excellence. The people who shall first have the moral courage to do this, will take the lead among the nations of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »