Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but... the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shore was about one fourth of a mile distant, through a dense, dark forest, and as he led us back to it, winding rapidly about... to the right and left, I had the curiosity to look down carefully, and found that he was following his steps backward. I could only occasionally perceive his trail in the moss, and yet he did not appear to look down nor hesitate for an instant, but led us out exactly to his canoe. This surprised me; for without a compass, or the sight or noise of the river to guide us, we could not have kept our course many minutes, and could have retraced our steps but a short distance, with a great deal of pains and very slowly, using a laborious circumspection. But it was evident that he could go back through the forest wherever he had been during the day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The monster of advertisement ... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and be...hind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is... not happening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantrie...s, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea in...to dry land; and the waters were divided. The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left ... th...e feeling that I could change the world only by being there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great snake lies ever half awake, at the bottom of the pit of the world, curled In folds of himself until he awakens in h...unger and moving his head to right and to left prepares for his hour to devour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left... to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the... left.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »