Its idea of "production value" is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision... of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodig...ality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so they... don't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at ra...ndom. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of his... child's sense of being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty,... For you have but mistook me all this while. I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »