The Tragi-Comedy, which is the Product of the English Theatre, is one of the most monstrous Inventions that ever entered into a Po...et's Thoughts. An Author might as well think of weaving the Adventures of Aeneas and Hudibras into one Poem, as of writing such a motly [sic] Piece of Mirth and Sorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wouldn't be above brainwashing your child about which shows you think are good and which you think are just awful. Nor would I h...esitate to enlighten a child about products that are advertised on TV. If you watch a commercial with your child, say to him, "Remember when we saw that toy at the store and it was just a piece of junk? You can't always tell when you see it on TV, because there are ways of filming it at different angles to make it look bigger and more powerful. Keep that in mind when you think you want all those toys they advertise."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anyw...here else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Didn't spill a drop. The shakes are gone just because of a piece of music. Until they played that piece, I, I forgot how I got int...o this thing. Keep on playin' it. I don't think I'll ever forget again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little b...etter than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please--that is, as they please or displease us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it an...d wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friends you want a speech, but I cannot make one at this time. I must have opportunity to think. Undue importance might be give...n to what I said. However, there is one thing I will do. You have a band with you. There's one piece of music I've always liked. Heretofore, it hasn't seemed the proper thing to use it in the North. But now by virtue of my prerogative as President and Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy, I declare it contraband of war and our lawful prize. I ask the band to play "Dixie."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Probably the profoundest difference between human and animal needs is made by one piece of human awareness, one fact that is not p...resent to animals, because it is never learned in any direct experience: that is our foreknowledge of death. The fact that we ourselves must die is not a simple and isolated fact. It is built on a wide survey of facts that discloses the structure of history as a succession of overlapping brief lives, the patterns of youth and age, growth and decline; and above all that, it is built on the logical insight that one's own life is a case in point. Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin i...t now?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humani...ty, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »