To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, and ...which sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
crew member [offscreen]: That's an awful big town San Francisco. Weinberg: Strictly a one-whistle stop. There's only one city... in the USA and that's New York. Chief Sergeant: Oh, you're just another hometown hick, Weinberg. What's wrong with California? Weinberg: California. The sun shines and nothing happens. Before you know it, you're sixty years old. Chief Sergeant: It's no different from New York. My sister's been tryin' to get out of Brooklyn for the last forty years. Weinberg: Brooklyn. That ain't New York, Chief. Once you cross that Brooklyn Bridge, you're out of this world. The only noise you hear is the hardening of your arteries. You know when I used to drive a hack, I had a pal who crossed that bridge back in 1929 and ain't never heard from him since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alvy Singer: You look like a really happy couple. Are you? Woman on Street: Yeah.... Alvy Singer: Yeah? So how do you account for it? Woman on Street: I'm very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say. Man on Street: And I'm exactly the same way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Katherina. Asses are made to bear, and so are you. Petruchio. Women are made to bear, and so are you.... Katherina. No such jade as you, if me you mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his ...distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties wi...th its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O if we but knew what we do When we delve or hew--... Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being so slender, That, like this sleek and seeing ball But a prick will make no eye at all, Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's ...doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time kills me terribly. "Time shall not murder you," He said,... "Nor the green nought be hurt; Who could hack out your unsucked heart, O green and unborn and undead?" I saw time murder me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »