Everybody comes along at the right time.... Leonardo was lucky because he came along at the right time. Oscar Wilde was lucky beca...use he came at the right time--if he hadn't gone to court and been martyred he wouldn't be such a cult hero now. Or Jesus Christ--if he came back now he would really be up the shit because there's no capital punishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I came along at a time when there was a demand to give men greater visibility and opportunity. In white society they were saying, ..."Women can't do it." In black society, they were saying, "Women do too much." It's a diabolical situation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and th...e animal world begins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But long before Kate and Ultra Slimfast came along, hanging over the lives of every little girl born in the second half of the 20t...h century was the impossibly curvy shadow (40-18-32 in life-size terms) of Barbie. That preposterous physique, we learn as kids, is what a woman looks like with her clothes off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to sh...irk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the s...hots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After we had breakfasted by ourselves, one of our bed-fellows, who had also breakfasted, came along, and, being invited, took a cu...p of tea, and finally, taking up the common platter, licked it clean. But he was nothing to a white fellow, a lumberer, who was continually stuffing himself with the Indians' moose meat, and was the butt of his companions accordingly. He seems to have thought that it was a feast "to eat all." It is commonly said that the white man finally surpasses the Indian on his own ground, and it was proved true in this case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... my mother ... piled up her hair and went out to teach in a one-room school, mountain children little and big alike. The first ...day, some fathers came along to see if she could whip their children, some who were older than she. She told the children that she did intend to whip them if they became unruly and refused to learn, and invited the fathers to stay if they liked and she'd be able to whip them too. Having been thus tried out, she was a great success with them after that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
None will now find Cupid latent By this foolish antique patent.... He came late along the waste, Shod like a traveller for haste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time now to pack this humpty-dumpty back the frightened way she came... and run alongnne, and run along now, my stomach laced up like a football for the game.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »