Newspaperman: That was a magnificent work. There were these mass columns of Apaches in their war paint and feather bonnets. And he...re was Thursday leading his men in that heroic charge. Capt. York: Correct in every detail. Newspaperman: He's become almost a legend already. He's the hero of every schoolboy in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain:... Eastward, the annual legend,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Apache have a legend that the coyote brought them fire and that the bear in his hibernations communes with the spirits of the ..."overworld" and later imparts the wisdom gained thereby to the medicine men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to legend, Dr. Sappington purchased his coffin several years before his death and kept it under his bed, with apples and... nuts in it for his visiting grandchildren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most p...eople go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that ...increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mi...nd; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled i...nto that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then... begin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification o...f Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »