... you can have a couple of seconds to rest in. I mean seconds. You have about two seconds to wait while the blanker is on the fe...lt drawing the moisture out. You can stand and relax those two seconds--three seconds at most. You wish you didn't have to work in a factory. When it's all you know what to do, that's what you do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The differences between the two men were pronounced. Galileo was an urbane gentleman who loved wine (which he described as "light ...held together by moisture"), women (he had three children by his mistress, Marina Gamba), and song (he was an accomplished musician). Kepler sneezed when he drank wine, had little luck with women, and heard his music in the stars. The deep organ-tones of religiosity and mysticism that resounded through Kepler's work struck Galileo as anachronistic and more than a bit embarrassing. Kepler suspected as much and pled with Galileo to please "not hold against me my rambling and my free way of speaking about nature." Galileo never answered his letter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... every one is as their land is, as the climate is, as the mountains and the rivers or their oceans are as the wind and rain and... snow and ice and heat and moisture is, they just are and that makes them have their way to eat their way to drink their way to act their way to think and their way to be subtle, and even if the lines of demarcation are only made with a ruler after all what is inside those right angles is different from those on the outside of those right angles, any American knows that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps. The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees ...are black. The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air. Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom. Pardie! Summer is like a fat beast, sleepy in mildew....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we are merely loquacious and loud talkers, then we can afford to stand very near together, cheek by jowl, and feel each other's... breath; but if we speak reservedly and thoughtfully, we want to be farther apart, that all animal heat and moisture may have a chance to evaporate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And, by the way, who estimates the value of the crop which nature yields in the still wilder fields unimproved by man? The crop of... English hay is carefully weighed, the moisture calculated, the silicates and the potash; but in all dells and pond-holes in the woods and pastures and swamps grows a rich and various crop only unreaped by man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon;... I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »