Morgan: From tonight you shall get a penny for every mark on your face, sixpence for a bloody nose, a shilling for a black eye, an...d two shillings for a broken nose. Mrs. Morgan: Gwilym, stop it. (To Huw) Fight again and when you come home not another look will you get from me. Not another word. Break your nose, then. Break your mother's heart every time you go from the house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as sig...ns. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strewn with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the great deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
It isn't easy to see the formerly loving child who once curled up in our laps turn into a surly stranger who cannot spare us a kin...d word. One mother ... was taken aback when she called, as her daughter was going out the door, "Have a good time," and her daughter angrily replied, "Stop telling me what to do!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are c...lassed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means "full stop" like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop.... It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but ...not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We walk along the cliff, and I feel a sudden impulse to push you over, which I promptly do: I acted on impulse, yet I certainly in...tended to push you over, and may even have devised a little ruse to achieve it; yet even then I did not act deliberately, for I did not (stop to) ask myself whether to do it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between a sign and the thing it signifies there is the fixed, determined relationship of cause and effect. We see this in the case... of the footprint in the sand, the tear on the eyelash, or the trademark of a commercial product. But no matter how closely tied a symbol is to the thing symbolized, the relation is variable, flexible, and free. It is in poetry, however, that the symbolic value of words reaches its apex. The cross has become the symbol of Christianity not because of its form but because the Christians, following St. Paul, at a definite moment in their history, decided to adopt the instrument of Christ's torture as their emblem. Similarly, the relation between a word and its meaning depends on its origin, its history, and its usage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »