The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibili...ty--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is saying ... it is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do to... her what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who a...re serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathe...rn boxes; and though they know us, and have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us,--some of them,--and are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to; and as the enchanter has dressed them, like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old age begins in the nursery, and before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, "I want something which I n...ever saw before" and "I wish I was not I."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The modern queer was invented by Tennessee Williams. Brando in blue jeans, sneakers, white T-shirt and leather jacket. When you sa...w that, you knew they were available.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This one was put in a jacket, This one was sent home,... This one was given bread and meat But would eat none, And this one cried No No No No All day long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gn...ats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder... a man works, at brute labour, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »