Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut i...s a long way from Edward R. Murrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch...ildren, and this madness between us can't go on any longer. T.R. Devlin: I bet you've heard that line often enough. Alicia: Right below the belt every time. Oh that isn't fair, Dev. Devlin: Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We have a job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Captain Prescott: I don't like this. I don't like her coming here. Mr. Beardsley: She's had me worried for some time, a woman... of that sort. T.R. Devlin: What sort is that, Mr. Beardsley? Mr. Beardsley: I don't think any of us have any illusions about her character, have we Devlin? Devlin: Not at all. Not in the slightest. Miss Huberman is first, last, and always not a lady. She may be risking her life, but when it comes to being a lady, she doesn't hold a candle to your wife, sir, sitting in Washington playing bridge with three other ladies of great honor and virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back... the burden of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Having intelligence is not as important as knowing when to use it, just as having a hoe is not as important as knowing when to pla...nt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for the... eighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is one of the worst speeches I've ever seen. No one will listen except the Mobil P.R. man. List what we want to say M arrange... items in order of priority M then say them plainly and bluntly.... Hit hard and early. Don't apologize or evade tough issues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always ...we are invited to work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He's got hay down that's been rained on three times. He hoed a little yesterday for me:... I thought the growing things would do him good. Something went wrong. I saw him throw the hoe Sky-high with both hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »