My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes d...iscuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I doubt that I would have taken so many leaps in my own writing or been as clear about my feminist and political commitments if I ...had not been anointed as early as I was. Some major form of recognition seems to have to mark a woman's career for her to be able to go out on a limb without having her credentials questioned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be....... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the de...ad limb of time like lice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We need not fear excessive influence. A more generous trust is permitted. Serve the great. Stick at no humiliation. Grudge no offi...ce thou canst render. Be the limb of their body, the breath of their mouth. Compromise thy egotism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... our great-grandmothers were prudes. The reason why they talked so much about their souls, I fancy, is that there was hardly a ...limb or a feature of the human body that they thought it proper to mention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I began to realize that it was bigotry of the worst kind to say that it's better to be dead than to be born retarded or blind or w...ithout a limb. It's a value judgment you're making about someone's life, based on their degree of perfection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lars Jorgensen: It's this country killed my boy. Yes, by golly, I tell you Ethan-- Mrs. Jorgensen: Now Lars. It just so happe...ns we be Texicans. A Texican is nothing but a human man way out on a limb, this year, and next, maybe for a hundred more. But I don't think it'll be forever. Someday this country's going to be a fine good place to be. Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ellie: Aren't you going to give me a little credit? Peter: What for?... Ellie: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb. Peter: Why didn't you take off all your clothes. You could have stopped forty cars. Ellie: Ooohh, I'll remember that when we need forty cars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »