One who was my companion in my two previous excursions to these woods, tells me that ... he found himself dining one day on moose-...meat, mud turtle, trout, and beaver, and he thought that there were few places in the world where these dishes could easily be brought together on one table.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on ...that, to hit the truth.... No; truth, being alive ... was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and ...though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It be...comes easier to tolerate the frustrations of the real world and to accede to the demands of reality if one can restore himself at intervals in a world where the deepest wishes can achieve imaginary gratification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursio...ns to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies a man who was killed by lightning; He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.... He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble, But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think of myself as a sex symbol or a servant. I think of myself as somebody who knows how to open the door of a 747 in the... dark, upside down, and under water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understan...ding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »