If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, "I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me... the story of your life." I mean people are going to say, "You're crazy." Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
we are the circle of the crazy ladies who sit in the lounge of the mental house... and smile at the smiling woman who passes us each a bell,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What have Massachusetts and the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late years?... All their speeches put to...gether and boiled down ... do not match for manly directness and force, and for simple truth, the few casual remarks of crazy John Brown on the floor of the Harper's Ferry engine-house,--that man whom you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though not to represent you there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If strange men come from the house To lead her away do not say... That she is happy being crazy; Lead gently astray; Let her finish her dance, Let her finish her dance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When mother boasts cheerfully, "Johnny is just crazy about his new little sister. . . . You love her, don't you, dear?" Johnny has...n't much choice but to lie like a gentleman . . . and then he begins to worry that something terrible may happen to little sister. She might get eaten by a stray tiger or fall into a tub of scalding water. . . . It doesn't often occur to that grownup to wonder why tigers and tubs of scalding water are all of a sudden wandering around the house waiting for an unwary moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy whic...h will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels;... the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid--these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is an old saying in the town that "most any fellow with a chaw in his jaw can sit on his front porch and spit down the chimney ...of a neighbor's house."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Tsegihi, In the house made of dawn,... In the house made of the evening twilight, In the house made of the dark cloud, ... Oh, male divinity! With your moccasins of dark cloud, come to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the Denver House, a hastily erected log structure roofed and partitioned with canvas, described by Horace Greeley in 1859 as "T...he Astor House of the Gold Fields," orchestra leader Jones and his spirited men were interrupted by sporadic but not unforeseen bursts of gunfire that sent them diving for shelter behind a low iron-plated enclosure. Before the smoke had fairly cleared away, they were up again desperately playing and singing: Ha, boys, ho! Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness, Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness? Ha, boys, ho!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »