The parent in charge is the disciplinarian.... I do not believe in letting discipline wait for another parent to handle it, nor do... I think the father or mother should be allowed to become a shadowy figure who walks in the door and has to play the bad guy in the house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you know, I've never really grown up? It's a hard thing for me to play this game. In politics, one must meet people, and that's... not easy for me.... When I was a little fellow, as long ago as I can remember, I would go into a panic if I heard stranger voices in the house. I felt I just couldn't meet the people and shake hands with them. Most of the visitors would sit with Mother and Father in the kitchen and the hardest thing in the world was to go through the door and give them a greeting.... I'm all right with old friends, but every time I meet a stranger, I've got to go through the old kitchen door, back home, and it's not easy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The secret of poetry is never explained--is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & t...he eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such, 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a play ... a psychological loop is established between performers and audience. Nothing like this can occur in a movie theater.... The images on the screen are patterns of light, not living actors. They are not affected by applause or hissing. They will be the same in a packed house or an empty one. And they will be the same every time the movie is shown. This affects the audience. Occasionally, movie audiences applaud or hiss or walk out, but for the most part they are passive. No social bond between the audience and the actors can exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The flattering, if arbitrary, label, First Lady of the Theatre, takes its toll. The demands are great, not only in energy but even...tually in dramatic focus. It is difficult, if not impossible, for a star to occupy an inch of space without bursting seams, cramping everyone else's style and unbalancing a play. No matter how self-effacing a famous player may be, he makes an entrance as a casual neighbor and the audience interest shifts to the house next door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns g...oing kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, play that thing! Mute glorious Storyvilles Others may license, grouping round their chairs... Sporting-house girls like circus tigers....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ladies and gents. The time has passed. The time has passed. Got to be a better way. I say to you, can't any longer, oh no, can't a...ny longer, play off black against old, young against poor. This country cannot house its houseless. Feed its foodless. They're demanding a government of the people. Peopled by people. Our faith. Our compassion. Our courage on the gridiron. The basic indifference that made this country great.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In France it is rude to let a conversation drop; in England it is rash to keep it up. No one there will blame you for silence. Whe...n you have not opened your mouth for three years, they will think: "This Frenchman is a nice quiet fellow." Be modest. An Englishman will say, "I have a little house in the country"; when he invites you to stay with him you will discover that the little house is a place with three hundred bedrooms. If you are a world tennis-champion, say, "Yes, I don't play too badly." If you have crossed the Atlantic alone in a small boat, say, "I do a little sailing."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »