Lilly Dillon: You hit a person with the oranges wrapped in a towel. They get big ugly-looking bruises. But they don't really get h...urt, not if you do it right. It's for working scams against insurance companies. Bobo: And if you do it wrong? Lilly Dillon: It can louse up your insides. You can get pe, pe ... pe, pe, pe ... pe, pe, pe.... Bobo: What? Lilly Dillon: Permanent damage. Bobo: You'll never shit right again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At about that time I was once sitting at my place and whispering--it was naughty, I know--with my neighbor. Then you, Herr Profess...or Rudner, got up from your desk, came calmly down the aisle to me: "Did you speak?" and slapped me smack in the face. And I--the fury is inside me to this day--I didn't hit back. Such were the methods of objectivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hi...t 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal... with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a pastoral game, baseball attempts to close the gap between the players and the crowd. It creates the illusion, for instance, t...hat with a lot a hard work, a little luck, and possibly some extra talent, the average spectator might well be playing; not watching. For most of us can do a few of the things that ball players can do: catch a pop-up, field a ground ball, and maybe get a hit once in a while.... As a heroic game, football is not concerned with a shared community of near-equals. It seeks almost the opposite relationship between its spectators and players, one which stresses the distance between them. We are not allowed to identify directly with Jim Brown any more than we are with Zeus, because to do so would undercut his stature as something more than human.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more kites that are up, the more string they need, and when it runs out, the bigger the loss. ...no one ever got a balloon up ...quite as high or hit bottom as hard as I did. I figure the lessons I learned were worth the money. Wounds made by these gambles soon heal, and before long the boys are back, looking at the board again. ...it's just life, and we all join in the game one way of another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »