In 1872 I received a request like this and I did register and vote, for which I was arrested, convicted and fined $100. Excuse me ...if I decline to repeat the experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check;... Richer than doing nothing for a bauble; Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The formation of an oppositional world view is necessary for feminist struggle. This means that the world we have most intimately ...known, the world in which we feel "safe" ... must be radically changed. Perhaps it is the knowledge that everyone must change, not just those we label enemies or oppressors, that has so far served to check our revolutionary impulses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though I knit my brow, my gaze is fixed... longingly anyway. Though I check my tongue, this tortured face of mine dissolves in a smile. Though I drive my heart to hardness, my body bears the gooseflesh of desire. When I see that man, how on earth can my anger survive?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for ...a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human visual perception is a far more complex and selective process than that by which a film records. Nevertheless the camera len...s and the eye both register images--because of their sensitivity to light--at great speed and in the face of an immediate event. What the camera does, however, and what the eye in itself can never do is to fix the appearance of that event. It removes its appearance from the flow of appearances and it preserves it, not perhaps forever but for as long as the film exists. The essential character of this preservation is not dependent upon the image being static; unedited film rushes preserve in essentially the same way. The camera saves a set of appearances from the otherwise inevitable supercession of further appearances. It holds them unchanging. And before the invention of the camera nothing could do this, except, in the mind's eye, the faculty of memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should be very willing to redress Men's wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes,... Had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale Of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime per...sists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his p...raise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »