Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coa...ches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vivian Rutledge: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. I like to see them work out a little first. See if they're front ...runners or come from behind. Philip Marlowe: Find out mine? Vivian Rutledge: I think so. Philip Marlowe: Go ahead. Vivian Rutledge: I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get in front, open up a lead, take a little breather in the back stretch, and, then, come home free. Philip Marlowe: You don't like to be rated yourself. Vivian Rutledge: I haven't met anyone yet that could do it. Any suggestions? Philip Marlowe: I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how ... how far you can go. Vivian Rutledge: A lot depends on who's in the saddle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Geoff Carter: Got a match? Bonnie Lee: Say, don't you ever have any?... Geoff: No, don't believe in laying in a supply of anything. Bonnie: Matches, marbles, money, women. Geoff: That's right. Bonnie: No looking ahead, no tomorrows, just today. Geoff: That's right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looks like we got a trial ahead of us. But it's not the first time. We've had to go it alone before, and we'll have to go it alone... again. We're tough. We've had to be tough ever since Brother Brigham led our people across the plain. Well, they survived and I dang it, we'll, well, we'll survive too. Now put out your fires and get to your wagons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm going to take you down and show you our cemetery. I've got a waiting list of fifty people at that cemetery just dying to get i...n. But I like you and I'm going to shove you in ahead of all of them. I'm going to see that you get a steady position and if I can arrange it, it will be horizontal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...we went on to Douglas, Arizona, and ... got in ahead of time. I asked the pilot the reason, and he told me we had a tail wind, ...which meant fast going. Right then it struck me that a tail wind was a mighty handy thing to have, in a lot of ways besides flying. I could look back over my life and think of quite a few times when a tail wind would have been right useful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I ...can't stand it. I been there before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »