By act of Congress, male officers are gentlemen, but by act of God, we are ladies. We don't have to be little mini-men and try to ...be masculine and use obscene language to come across. I can take you and flip you on the floor and put your arms behind your back and you'll never move again, without your ever knowing that I can do it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Doe...s Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dubliners, strictly speaking, are my fellow-countrymen, but I don't care to speak of our "dear, dirty Dublin" as they do. Dubliner...s are the most hopeless, useless and inconsistent race of charlatans I have ever come across, on the island or the continent. This is why the English Parliament is full of the greatest windbags in the world. The Dubliner passes his time gabbing and making the rounds in bars or taverns or cathouses, without every getting 'fed up' with the double doses of whiskey and Home Rule, and at night, when he can hold no more and is swollen up with poison like a toad, he staggers from the side- door and, guided by an instinctive desire for stability along the straight line of the houses, he goes slithering his backside against all walls and corners. He goes "arsing along" as we say in English. There's the Dubliner for you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had... the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Major Bagley: So they really got the Arizona. Captain Quincannon: Yes, sir. Hickham Field was hit just as bad as Pearl Harbor..., lot of fifth column work. Major Bagley: I've studied all the wars in history, gentlemen, and I've never come across any dirty treachery like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, ...the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other h...uman being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why y...ou should be subjected to them on the stage too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often wished since that I was with them. They search for timber over a given section, climbing hills and often high trees t...o look off; explore the streams by which it is to be driven, and the like; spend five or six weeks in the woods, they two alone, a hundred miles or more from any town, roaming about, and sleeping on the ground where night overtakes them, depending chiefly on the provisions they carry with them, though they do not decline what game they come across.... It is a solitary and adventurous life, and comes nearest to that of the trapper of the West, perhaps. They work ever with a gun as well as an axe, let their beards grow, and live without neighbors, not on an open plain, but far within a wilderness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »