A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep, careless, reckless, and fearless of what's past, present, o...r to come; insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wante...d my right thumb to be flattened as my father's had become, during his earlier years of a miller's life.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 »
... that there is no other way, That the history of creation proceeds according to... Stringent laws, and that things Do get done in this way, but never the things We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately To see come into being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wond...er is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The "paper tiger" hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperat...ely to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperat...ely wicked.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... you have to have been desperately unhappy before you can play comedy, so that nothing can frighten you any more. And you can't... do tragedy before you know absolute happiness, because having known that, you are safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know, it must have been my imagination, but it makes me realize how desperately alone the Earth is. Hanging in space like a spec...k of food floating in the ocean. Sooner or later to be swallowed up by some creature floating by.... Time will tell, Dr. Mason. We can only wait and wonder. Wonder how, wonder when.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »