She was custom built for the pictures--teeny tiny, one inch less than five foot, and a perfectly enormous head. Her face went righ...t from one side of the screen to the other. Gloria Swanson was like that, as well. Joan Crawford, too. You need the big face, for the closeups.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor aught availed him now To have built in heav'n high tow'rs; nor did he scape... By all his engines, but was headlong sent With his industrious crew to build in hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universa...l and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These examples, though foreign to us, are not strange, if we consider, as our experience often tells us, how custom dulls the sens...es.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Custom calls me to't. What custom wills, in all things should we do't,... The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to o'erpeer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom... More honored in the breach than the observance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have bu...ilt!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »