You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into yo...ur two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschoolers think and talk in concrete, literal terms. When they hear a phrase such as "losing your temper," they may wonder wher...e the lost temper can be found. Other expressions they may hear in times of crisis--raising your voice, crying your eyes out, going to pieces, falling apart, picking on each other, you follow in your father's footsteps--may be perplexing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light.... Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in t...he old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.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 »
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 »
Before we drained out one another's force With lies, self-denial, unspoken regret... And the sick eyes that blame; before the divorce And the treachery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: What good did that do ya? Ethan Edwards: By what you preach none. By what that Comanch believes, a...in't got no eyes he can't enter the spirit land. Has to wander forever between the winds.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 »
Most days I feel like an acrobat high above a crowd out of which my own parents, my in-laws, potential employers, phantoms of "oth...er women who do it" and a thousand faceless eyes stare up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »