Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the fac...e. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said "Box about: 'twill come to my father anon."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vas...t power that the law gives us over them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine give...s his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women and men are different, after all. Being a mother isn't the same as being a father. Motherhood means that a woman gives her b...ody over to her child, her children; they're on her as they might be on a hill, in a garden; they devour her, hit her, sleep on her; and she lets herself be devoured. Nothing like that happens with fathers. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home--will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children. Men's needs have to be met just the same as children's. And women take the same pleasure in meeting them. Men think they're heroes--again, just like children. Men love war, hunting, fishing, motorbikes, cars, just like children. When they're sleepy, you can see it. And women like men to be like that. We mustn't fool ourselves. We like men to be cruel and innocent; we like hunters and warriors; we like children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are mountains that have been standing for centuries, that have always been standing, and armies with guns have gone over the...m, there are islands, people on them, chock-full, all strong, solid business houses, banks, industry, dancing, dives, import, export, social questions, and one day there starts a rrrrrrrr, rrrr, not from the warship, the rumpus starts all by itself--from down below. The earth gives a jump, nightingale, nightingale, how beautifully you sang, the ships fly to the skies, the birds fall to the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood. St. Peter's... cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would seem that the film maker is able to exert a greater degree of control over his medium than the writer since the image of ...a farmhouse is much more explicit than the word itself. That is, it is not necessary to translate a picture into an image--film is literal, concrete, and explicit. The film maker is able to show precisely the farmhouse he has in mind--he doesn't have to trust that the reader will "see" the same farmhouse. And yet, despite his superior technical ability to delineate the concrete, the film maker gives up some of his power of suggestion by insisting on explicitness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cities are expanding at an alarming rate. Inter-tidal zones are being polluted as mangroves gives way to marina. Over-consumption ...is leading to soil erosion and desertification, which in turn cause famine and exert pressure on formerly fertile areas. We are pulling out the plugs of the system that keeps us alive. Every indicator is showing red: species diversity, water quality, weather patterns, the number of refugees.... We are unravelling nature like an old jumper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God gives all men all earth to love, But, since man's heart is small,... Ordains for each one spot shall prove Belovèd over all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »