Next we come to the bronchial buster, or the man (it is usually a man) who, being in the throes of a terrific throat and tube trou...ble chooses that night for theater-going.... He will soon learn to pick his pauses with finesse. It does no good to cough while there is a great deal of noise going on on the stage. No one can hear. The time is just as the star is about to do a little low speaking to her dying lover or when the hero, alone in his garret, goes silently over to the fireplace and tears up the letter. There for a good rousing bark, my hearty, followed by a series of short sharp ones like those of a coxswain! If possible the appearance of apoplexy should be simulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He doesn't want you for friends, that's why he did it. You see, when guys have been in the line as long as we have, you find out i...t's no good to make friends, 'cause when a friend gets it--well, it's rough on you. The buddies that come with you you're stuck with, but you don't make no new ones. It's the dyin' truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead--somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but... humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man--somewhere these, too, come together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ransom Stoddard: I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna kill 'em. I wanna put 'em in jail. Tom Donophon: Well, I... know those law books mean a lot to you. But not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems. Ransom Stoddard: No. Do, do you know what you're saying to me? D'you know? You're saying exactly what Liberty Valance said. What kind of community have I come to. You all seem to know about this fellow Liberty Valance. He's a no-good, gun-packing murdering thief. But the only advice you can give to me is to carry a gun. Well, I'm a lawyer. Ransom Stoddard, attorney at law. And the law is the only, the only.... [he collapses]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know. That's what makes us tough. Rich fellows come up and they die. Their kids ain't no good and they die out. But we keepa com...in'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, cause we're the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain't no good, and they die out. But we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live.... They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at b...eing noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.... Here's looking at you, kid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the... prey.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which... is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »