Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do wi...th my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wheeler: Aren't you the fellow the Mexicans used to call "Brachine"? Dude: That's nearly right. Only it's "Borracho."... Wheeler: I don't think I ever seen you like this before. Dude: You mean sober. You're probably right. You know what "Borracho" means? Wheeler: My Spanish ain't too good. Dude: It means drunk. No, if the name bothers ya' they used to call me Dude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not being a K.N. [Know-Nothing] I am left as a sort of waif on the political sea with symptoms of a mild sort towards Black Republ...icanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Porter: O.K., O.K., you win. I'll marry you. How 'bout it? Lora May: Thanks. For nuthin'.... Porter: Now what kind of an answer is that? Lora May: I don't know. I just felt like it, that's all. Porter: We'll do all right, kid. We're startin' out where it takes most marriages years to get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Avrum was there in the audience, I believe, in Berkeley on the afternoon in 1941 when, in conformity with the law subsequently enu...nciated by Murphy, what could go wrong, epistemologically, did. G.E. Moore was delivering the Howison Lecture in Wheeler Auditorium, which had a handsome coffered ceiling inset with glass panels. Giving a local angle to his defence of common sense, Moore declared that among the things he knew there and then was that light from the sun was streaming through the roof. Most in the audience were aware, however, that the glass panels were diffusers for electrical illumination; the roof of the building was solid and opaque. Someone had the temerity to point this out to Moore in the question period. He responded, "Oh dear me!" and went on to the next question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The two great things yet to be discovered are these--The Art of rejuvenating old age in men, & oldageifying youth in books.--Who i...n the name of the trunk-makers would think of reading Old Burton were his book published for the first to day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"There?" he asked and pointed-- With his stick, reader, with his stick. S-T-I-C-K, gentle reader. A roughly hewn stick brande...d with the owner's name: Felix Wohlfahrt from Zwickau. With his stickau he pointed, gentle or lowly reader, with his stick! You know what a stick is, don't you? Well, that's what he pointed with--a stick--and got into the car, and left the stick there, upon getting out again, naturally--for the car temporarily belonged to him. I in fact noted that "quiet satisfaction." An artist's memory--what a curious thing! Beats all other kinds, I imagine. "There?"Mhe asked and pointed with his stick. Never in my life was I so astonished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »