Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the... classroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the ba...se or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Q: Have you made personal sacrifices for the sake of your career? A: Leaving a three-month-old infant in another person's hou...se for nine hours, five days a week is a personal sacrifice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat ei...ght hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours--all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had to hailbomb, for twelve hours, and when it was all over I wal...ked up.... We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinking dink body. That smell, you know, that gasoline smell. The whole hill. It smelled like ... victory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were su...re to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very san...ctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a vo...ter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a ...300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »