Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food--not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe...-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will watch you while you work, and always has a good word to say or a quip to snap at you to keep you cheered up, but when it c...omes to taking off his coat and lending a hand,... he is an Oriental incense-holder on the guest-room mantle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A cow does not know how much milk it has until the milkman starts working on it. Then it looks round in surprise and sees the pail... full to the brim. In the same way a writer has no idea how much he has to say till his pen draws it out of him. Thoughts will then appear on the paper that he is amazed to find that he possessed. "How brilliant!" he says to himself. "I had no idea I was so intelligent." But the reader may not be so im pressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires;... By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large then they; By all thy brim-fill'd Bowls of fierce desire, By thy last Morning's draught of liquid fire; By the full kingdom of that final kiss That seiz'd thy parting Soul, and seal'd thee his;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right tim...e in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there were, oh! an Hellespont of cream Between us, milk-white mistress, I would swim... To you, to show to both my love's extreme, Leander-like,--yea! dive from brim to brim.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of the snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jump...ers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,--these are in the system, and our habits like theirs. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity, expensive races,--race living at the expense of race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. ...Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »