The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his an...tlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, "Daddy, I need to ask you something," he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adv...ersaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to dis...tinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume ...thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A buzz of recognition came from the front rows of the pit, together with a craning of necks on the part of those in less favoured ...seats. It heralded the arrival of Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the bes...t of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if i...n some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections....... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into... my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »