I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meaner ...than I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot!... Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;... The spring begins before the winter's over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe that organic sex, body against body, skin area against skin area, is becoming no longer possible, simply because if anyt...hing is to have any meaning for us it must take place in terms of the values and experiences of the media landscape.... What we're getting is a whole new order of sexual fantasies, involving a different order of experiences, like car crashes, like travelling in jet aircraft, the whole overlay of new technologies, architecture, interior design, communications, transport, merchandising. These things are beginning to reach into our lives and change the interior design of our sexual fantasies. We've got to recognize that what one sees through the window of the TV screen is as important as what one sees through a window on the street.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confr...onted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I was confronted with a virile idealism, an awareness of what man must have for manliness, dignity, and inner liberty which, by... contrast, made me see how easy living had made my own group into childishly unthinking people. The Negro's struggles and despairs have been like fertilizer in the fields of his humanity, while we, like protected children with all our basic needs supplied, have given our attention to superficialities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister a...t the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People... ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared ...or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous aff...ects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »