The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basi...c appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He slipped his hand and ran away! He hadn't gone a yard when--Bang!... With open jaws, a lion sprang, And hungrily began to eat The boy: beginning at his feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don different from those regal Dons! With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,... Who shout and bang and roar and brawl The Absolute across the hall,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Epic poem,--ten thousand lines--revolution of July--composed it on the spot--Mars by day, Apollo by night,--bang the field-piece,... twang the lyre."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, men...tal conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it won't be in aid of the old-fash...ioned grand design. It'll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank-you. About as pointless and inglorious as stepping in front of a bus. No, there's nothing left for it, me boy, but to let yourself be butchered by the women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »