McCoy: That shark's been following us ever since the surgeon died, waiting for the burial. Couldn't I have a musket to shoot it, s...ir? Fletcher Christian: Take the deck, McCoy. I'll get the keys to the arms chest. McCoy: Get two muskets, sir. I'd like to shoot that shark on board.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River f...or the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school board meeting I attended . . . the only defin...ition of a gifted child on which everyone in the audience could agree was "mine."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so they have left us feeling tired and old. They never cared for school anyway.... And they have left us with the things pinned on the bulletin board. And the night, the endless, muggy night that is invading our school.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing adv...ertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far a...s Seattle before his crime was discovered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoro...ughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What sunk me very low was the sensation that I was precisely as when in wretched low spirits thirty years ago, without any additio...n to my character from my having had the friendship of Dr. Johnson and many eminent men, made the tour of Europe, and Corsica in particular, and written two very successful books. I was as a board on which fine figures had been painted, but which some corrosive application had reduced to its original nakedness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I am ...resolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delecta...ble necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »