[Rutherford B. Hayes] was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious ...civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home. He has steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Benjamin: Are you always this much afraid of being alone? Mrs. Robinson: Yes.... Benjamin: Well, why can't you just lock the doors and go to bed? Mrs. Robinson: I'm very neurotic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Benjamin: Do you think I'm proud of myself? Do you think I'm proud of this? Mrs. Robinson: I wouldn't know.... Benjamin: Well, I'm not. Mrs. Robinson: You're not? Benjamin: No, sir. I'm not proud that I spend my time with a broken-down alcoholic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Maguire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir.... Mr. Maguire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. Maguire: Plastics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable? Benjamin: Oh, no, Mrs. Robinson. I think you're the most attractive of all my pare...nts' friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Henry B. Adams was the first in an infinite series to discover and admit to himself that he really did not care whether truth was,... or was not, true. He did not even care that it should be proved true, unless the process were new and amusing. He was a Darwinian for fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"To my thinking" boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, "the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation ...of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus." "And yours," said the P.B.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Painting throughout its history has served many purposes, has been flat and has used perspective, has been framed and has been lef...t borderless, has been explicit and has been mysterious. But one act of faith has remained a constant.... The act of faith consisted in believing that the visible contained hidden secrets, that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance.... Jackson Pollock was driven by a despair which was partly his and partly that of the times which nourished him, to refuse this act of faith: to insist, with all his brilliance as a painter, that there was nothing behind, that there was only that which was done to the canvas on the side facing us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »