The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writ...ers have had it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American ...men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor aught availed him now To have built in heav'n high tow'rs; nor did he scape... By all his engines, but was headlong sent With his industrious crew to build in hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen:... A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded ho...pe, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child receives data through the sense organs; the child also has some inborn processing capacities--otherwise it would not be ...able to learn--but in addition, some "information" or "programs" are built-in at birth (for example, the child does not have to learn how to suck, for this is an innate reflex); there is a working memory, in which the child keeps those items of knowledge that are being used at a particular moment; and there is a permanent memory, which is, in Locke's terms, largely a "blank tablet" at birth, but which has a storage capacity that makes a hard disk pale into insignificance. The child gradually builds up a symbolic representation of the world around it, so there must be some inner "language" or medium of representation; even a newborn baby is starting to see and taste and smell and hear and touch, and to remember the more striking of its experiences, so the internal medium by which it represents and stores these impressions cannot be the native language (of which it is still ignorant. Jerry Fodor [in The Language of Thought] has discussed this inbuilt "language of thought," which is similar conceptually to the "machine language" that is built into the personal computer and about which most users remain completely ignorant).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are those who would build the Temple, And those who prefer that the Temple should not be built.... In the days of Nehemiah the Prophet There was no exception to the general rule.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,... Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »