But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for ...a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in band...s of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Do not be afraid; for see -I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of Da...vid a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where thi...ngs go, the physical properties of cloth, what happens when you drop it, how easy or hard it is to carry compared with everything else he has ever carried, what clean clothes smell like, how a big towel can turn into a small bundle, how the small bundle you just folded can turn into a big towel again, plus any songs we care to sing or stories or related or unrelated facts we care to pass on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the y...ears it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It's another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"My ancestors were all famous for military genius." My Lady smiled graciously. "It often runs in families," she remarked: "ju...st as a love for pastry does."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"To dine!" she shrieked in dragon-wrath. "To swallow wines all foam and froth!... To simper at a table-cloth!" Say, can thy noble spirit stoop To join the gormandising troop Who find solace in the soup?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a st...urgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must alwa...ys have the most money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern,... are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »