The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can be... too easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon, And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,... He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit, And Custard gobbled him, every bit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, ope...n their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, w...hy you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is one of the worst speeches I've ever seen. No one will listen except the Mobil P.R. man. List what we want to say M arrange... items in order of priority M then say them plainly and bluntly.... Hit hard and early. Don't apologize or evade tough issues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit.... The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you're tall, thin, blond, and have big boobs, you can have any job you want. ... ultimately, it all settled into a runni...ng soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week. Barbara and Peter. Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show: this week Barbara and Peter went to a party and Barbara pulled down her pants and mooned the guests and Peter was furious. Joanna and Dave, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show: this week Joanna refused to get out of bed and change the channel and Dave hit her and she threatened to kill herself. Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual Boredom but Loves Her Husband Show: this week a man in the office Claire has the hots for put his hand on her leg while they were having a drink at P. J. Clarke's, but it was time to go home and feed the children and she never did find out whether it was significant or an accident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »