The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the e...nd. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it--a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand--as a kind o...f final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Minerva House ... was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen ...inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Finishing schools in the fifties were a good place to store girls for a few years before marrying them off, a satisfactory rest st...op between college weekends spent husband hunting. It was a haven for those of us adept at styling each other's hair, playing canasta, and chain smoking Pall Mall extra-long cigarettes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the st...rength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long- distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],... and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficul...ty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls' boarding- scho...ol is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there--wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »