What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is ...thinking all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but wh...o throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had stopped to watch a family of brilliant icicles drip- dripping from the eaves of a frame house. So clear-cut were their point...ed shadows on the white boards behind them that I was sure the shadows of the falling drops should be visible too. But they were not. The roof jutted too far out, perhaps, or the angle of vision was faulty, or again, I did not chance to be watching the right icicle when the right drop fell. There was a rhythm, an alternation in the dropping that I found as teasing as a coin trick.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my m...id-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It appeared to have no companion in the universe,--sporting there alone,--and to need none but the morning and the ether with whic...h it played. It was not lonely, but made all the earth lonely beneath it. Where was the parent which hatched it, its kindred, and its father in the heavens? The tenant of the air, it seemed related to the earth but by an egg hatched some time in the crevice of a crag;Mor was its native nest made in the angle of a cloud, woven of the rainbow's trimmings and the sunset sky, and lined with some soft midsummer haze caught up from earth? Its eyry now some cliffy cloud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefo...re, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lisa Fremont: Surprise is the most important element of attack. And besides, you're not up on your private eye literature. When th...ey're in trouble it's always their girl Friday who gets them out of it. L.B. Jeffries: Well, is she the girl who saves him from the clutches of the seductive show girls and the over passionate daughters of the rich? Lisa Fremont: The same. L.B. Jeffries: That's the one, huh? But he never ends up marrying her, does he? That's strange.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »