Paper is soft and ink is fluid; it might be better if some pages of this chronicle could be written on chips of granite at the poi...nt of steel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis not such lines as almost crack the stage When Bajazet begins to rage;... Nor a tall met'phor in the bombast way, Nor the dry chips of short-lunged Seneca. Nor upon all things to obtrude And force some odd similitude. What is it then, which like the power divine We only can by negatives define?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first, and limber as the second. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.... An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters, in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all; as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Captain Bligh: Mr. Byam, you're up late. Byam: It's very warm below, sir.... Captain Bligh: I hadn't noticed it. A true sailor can sleep in an oven, if need be, or in a keg of ice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rebellion is against time pollution, the feeling that the essence of what makes life worth living--the small moments, the spec...ial family getaways, the cookies in the oven, the weekend drives, the long dreamlike summers Mso much of this has been taken from us, or we have given it up. For what? Hitachi stereos? Club Med? Company cars? Racquetball? For fifteen-hour days and lousy day care?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mys...teries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »