Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch...ildren, and this madness between us can't go on any longer. T.R. Devlin: I bet you've heard that line often enough. Alicia: Right below the belt every time. Oh that isn't fair, Dev. Devlin: Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We have a job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity trul...y diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your... desk in midair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Names on a list, whose faces I do not recall But they are gone to early death, who late in school... Distinguished the belt feed lever from the belt holding pawl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation--for a chatterbox is trul...y of a lower category than a dumb creature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her little loose hands, and dropping Victorian shoulders. And then her great weight below the waist, her vast pale belly ...>With a thin young yellow little paw hanging out, and straggle of a long thin ear, like ribbon, Like a funny trimming to the middle of her belly, thin little dangle of an immature paw, and one thin ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The centuries-long wars with the Saracen, when everything of the East was the enemy, and the subsequent, now over, era of Western ...imperialism, when Eastern cultures were despised by us, have caused a block in European thinking, making it hard for us to acknowledge what we all owe to the East. Two great religions have influenced Europe, we say: Christianity and Judaism, but we scarcely mention Islam, which has been the third. We are the heirs, we claim proudly, of Greece and Rome, but seldom think of the Arabs, the Persians, the Moors, who, through Spain, fed culture into a Europe that was considered a poor and backward place, with a culture far below the dazzling civilizations of the cities of North Africa, Spain, the Middle East, India.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »