That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses wil...ling, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was like passing a boundary to dive Into the sun-filled water, brightly leafed... And limbed and lighted out from bank to bank. That's how the stars shine during the day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You want to get Capone? Here's how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send ...one of his to the morgue. It's the Chicago way and that's how you get Capone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a who...le bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People having speech defects sometimes learn part of the practice by laborious study, but good speech is always mainly unconscious... speech. Any tennis player, even if he could not explain this enigma, could provide an analogy for it. When he sees a rapidly flying tennis ball coming toward him, he knows what he must do. He must maneuver himself into the proper position, be poised with his weight properly distributed, meet the ball with the proper sweep of his arm and with his racket held at just the right pitch, and all this must be timed to stop the flying ball at a precise point. But if the tennis player pauses to think of all these actions and how he will perform them, he is lost. The ball will not skim back over the net, building air pressure as it goes until it buzzes down into the opponent's corner. If the tennis player thinks about anything except where he wants the ball to go and what he plans for the next stroke, he will probably become so awkward that he will be lucky to hit the ball at all. Rapid, precise muscular actions can be successfully carried out only by the unconscious part of the brain. And so with the speaker. He cannot speak well unless he speaks unconsciously, for his movements are as precise, as complicated, and as exactly timed as those of the tennis player.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the moment a child begins to speak, he is taught to respect the word; he is taught how to use the word and how not to use it.... The word is all-powerful, because it can build a man up, but it can also tear him down. That's how powerful it is. So a child is taught to use words tenderly and never against anyone; a child is told never to take anyone's name or reputation in vain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the piano, scales, arpeggios And chords, the morning exercises,... The afternoon's reading, the night's reflection, That's how to produce a virtuoso.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »