According to fiction, the hillman is a seven-foot combination of malnutrition and hookworm, asleep on his front porch with the dog...s. His great bare feet, dangling off the porch, flap from time to time when the flies get too pesky, but nothing awakens him except a hound's salute to a stranger. Then he shoots up his astounding neck to its full length, ogles the visitor, and on his hunting horn blows a series of long and short blasts that means, "Hide yore stills and oil yore guns; they air a stranger h'yar."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to legend, Dr. Sappington purchased his coffin several years before his death and kept it under his bed, with apples and... nuts in it for his visiting grandchildren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to Father's lexicon people who started on a job and didn't stay at it for 50 years were "quitters." If you stayed 20 yea...rs and then shifted to more congenial work you were a "drifter."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I N take thee M to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in s...ickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes grea...t care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern theories of mental dysfunction led to the elimination of witches from our serious ontology. The concepts of folk psychology...--belief, desire, fear, sensation, pain, joy, and so on--await a similar fate, according to the view at issue. And when neuroscience has matured to the point where the poverty of our current conceptions is apparent to everyone, and the superiority of the new framework is established, we shall then be able to set about reconceiving our internal states and activities, within a truly adequate conceptual framework at last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a tendency to discuss surrealism and cubism as if one proceeds out of the other, but in fact there is no similarity. Cubi...sm was a way of painting that a group of painters imposed on themselves, surrealism a philosophy of life put forward by a band of poets. The first was essentially a method of breaking up the object and putting it together again according to concepts of pictorial structure, a phase of the greatest importance in the development of such painters as Picasso, Braque, Marcoussis, and Gris, but affecting literature only through Apollinaire, and life hardly at all. The second was the attempt of a highly organized group to change life altogether, to make a new kind of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Victoria: Would you believe me if I told you we were in love? King: No.... Victoria: Because homosexuality is unnatural and a sin? King: According to who? Victoria: Oh, pious clergymen and terrified heterosexuals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »