Men seem to flip around the television more than women. Men get that remote control in their hands, they don't even know what the ...hell they're not watching. You know we just keep going, "Rerun, that's stupid, he's stupid, go, go, go." "What are you watching?" "I don't care, I gotta keep going." "Who was that?" "I don't know what it was, doesn't matter, it's not your fault. I gotta keep going." "I think that's a documentary on your father." "Don't care, what else is on?" Women don't do this. Women will stop and go, "Well let me see what the show is, before I change the channel. Maybe we can nurture it, work with it, help it grow into something." Men don't do that. Because women nest and men hunt. That's why we watch TV differently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The children [on TV] are too well behaved and are reasonable beyond their years. All the children pop in with exceptional insights.... On many of the shows the children's insights are apt to be unexpectedly philosophical. The lesson seems to be, "Listen to little children carefully and you will learn great truths."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and... opportunities are early attracted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
D--n me, stranger, ef you can't stay as long as you please, and I'll give you plenty to eat and drink. Play away, stranger, you ki...n sleep on the dry spot tonight!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It's like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, sh...avings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot... Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »