Dizzy: Say, don't you think about anything but flying? When did the bug first bite you? Tommy: You remember the day Lindy cam...e back from Paris?... I was only a kid, but I'll never forget it. They wrote "Welcome Home" with smoke across the sky and signed it QB.... I didn't even know what QB meant. Then someone told me about the quiet burglar. Old pilots joining together to help the flying game. I loved that. They seemed apart from ordinary people. Dizzy: Oh they were. That, that first QB hanger was a great place. Each pilot had his own drinking mug, and whenever one got bumped off, they put the mug on the shelf over the bar, bottom up, and your first drink was always a silent toast to the shelf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.... 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Myself now and myself a while ago are indeed two; but when better, I simply cannot say. It would be fine to be old if we traveled ...only toward improvement. It is a drunkard's motion, staggering, dizzy, wobbling, or that of reeds that the wind stirs haphazardly as it pleases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No! There's the land. (Have you seen it?) It's the cussedest land that I know,... From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it To the deep, deathlike valleys below.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!... The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
she drew back a while, Then, yielding to the irresistible joy,... With frantic gesture and short breathless cry Folded his frame in her dissolving arms. Now blackness veiled his dizzy eyes, and night Involved and swallowed up the vision; sleep, Like a dark flood suspended in its course, Rolled back its impulse on his vacant brain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today, almost forty years later, I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more importan...t to me than the vanished victims of racism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »