Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still gi...ve variety to a winter's walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who to...uches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The purity of today will invest us like a breeze, Only be hard, spare, ironical: something one can... Tip one's hat to and still get some use out of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my w...ords. My language trembles with desire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this s...chool of affected grace and toe walking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting th...e Scripture, 'If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The res...t of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When as that Rubie, which you weare, Sunk from the tip of your soft eare,... Will last to be a precious Stone, When all your world of Beautie 's gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »