Lora May: Did you ever stop to think, Porter, that in over three years there's one word we've never said to each other, even in fu...n. Porter: To you, I'm a cash register. You can't love a cash register. Lora May: And I'm part of your inventory. You can't love that either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Porter: O.K., O.K., you win. I'll marry you. How 'bout it? Lora May: Thanks. For nuthin'.... Porter: Now what kind of an answer is that? Lora May: I don't know. I just felt like it, that's all. Porter: We'll do all right, kid. We're startin' out where it takes most marriages years to get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hans Castorp loved music from his heart; it worked upon him much the same way as did his breakfast porter, with deeply soothing, n...arcotic effect, tempting him to doze.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Macduff. What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter. Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, ...it provokes, and unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further; I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go... the primrose way to th' everlasting bonfire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring... Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constant...inople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Every body knows as much as the savant.... The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »