It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that ...undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and ...hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chuck wagon carries the food and utensils for the range kitchen. Man-at-the-pot is the first buckaroo to pick up the coffee po...t when out with the chuck wagons. It becomes his duty to pour the coffee for the outfit. "Come and get her before I throw her out" is the time honored mess call.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have seen many people, who, while you are speaking to them, instead of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the... ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but will... pick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be c...areful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've re...ally and truly arrived. Parity at last!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so they... don't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
but you are not deaf, you pick out... your own song from the uproar line by line, and at last throw back your head and sing it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as go...od as new. What is broken is broken--and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.... I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't. My dear, I don't give a damn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »