It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a so...rt of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alig...hts upon the nearest perch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Woman is mannes joy and all his bliss." For when I feel a-night your softe side,... Albeit that I may not on you ride, For that our perch is made so narrowe, alas! I am so full of joy and of solace That I defye bothe sweven and dream.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the e...dge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some may know what they seek in school and church, And why they seek it there; for what I search... I must go measuring stone walls, perch on perch....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poor verdant fool, and now green ice! thy joys, Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass,... Bid us lay in 'gainst winter rain, and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good way to think about television--in fact all the media--is as a kind of telescope in the sky, flying around, constantly looki...ng. Then from its perch in the sky, it zooms down to a single spot on the planet, a small group of people shooting each other. It takes this single event out of billions and billions of other little events and sends it zooming through space to television antennas, and then out through an electron gun into (on the average) 30 million people sitting at home in dark rooms with their eyes still. The event gets reconstructed in the brains of these people as an image. Recorded. All these 30 million people have recorded the same image from this single distant spot where they are not. This becomes their experience of that moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,... And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off ...his perch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »