They were two strong men, these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that, thr...ough them, had come into final collision. Back of Robert E. Lee was the notion that the old aristocratic concept might somehow survive and be dominant in American life. Lee was tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, and tradition.... Grant, the son of a tanner on the Western frontier, was everything Lee was not. He had come up the hard way and embodied nothing in particular except the eternal toughness and sinewy fiber of the men who grew up beyond the mountains. He was one of a body of men who owed reverence and obeisance to no one, who were self-reliant to a fault, who cared hardly anything for the past but who had a sharp eye for the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Daniel: I'm glad to know you. Jerry: How can you be glad to know me? I know how I'd feel if I were sitting with a girl and he...r husband walked in. Lucy: I'll bet you do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lucy: I know I'll enjoy Oklahoma City. Jerry: But, of course. And if it should get dull, you can always go to Tulsa for the w...eekend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bonnie Lee: How can you do that? Geoff Carter: What?... Bonnie: Eat that steak. Geoff: What's the matter with it? Bonnie: It was his. Geoff: Look, what do you want me to do, have it stuffed? Bonnie: Haven't you got any feelings? Don't you realize he's dead? Geoff: Who's dead? Les Peters: Yeah, who's dead? Bonnie: Joe. Geoff: Joe, who's Joe? Les: Anybody know Joe? Bonnie: What's the matter with you. He was sitting here with us, talking and laughing, just a few minutes ago. [Geoff, Les, et al., ignore her and start singing]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bonnie Lee: Mr. Carter, Mr. Carter, do you really think, I mean, do you really think it was my fault, what happened out there? .../>Geoff Carter: Sure it was your fault. You were gonna have dinner with him, the Dutchman hired him, I sent him up on schedule, the fog came in, a tree got in the way. All your fault. Forget it unless you want the honor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bonnie Lee: Oh, it's the most wonderful thing I've ever seen. Geoff Carter [sarcastically]: Yes, it reminded you of a great b...ig, beautiful bird, didn't it? Bonnie: No, it didn't at all. That's why it's so wonderful. It's really a flying human being. Geoff: Well, you're right about one thing. A bird'd have too much sense to fly in that kind of muck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bonnie Lee: Why doesn't he jump? Kidd Dabb: Why, why should he jump? He's made of rubber, he is. He wants to hit the ground t...o see how high he can bounce.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 »