... the only way in which Mr. Brooke could be coerced into thinking of the right arguments at the right time was to be well plied ...with them till they took up all the room in his brain. But here there was the difficulty of finding room, so many things having been taken in beforehand. Mr. Brooke himself observed that his ideas stood rather in his way when he was speaking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out wi...th your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I first heard Elvis's voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody and nobody was gonna be my boss. Hearing him ...for the first time was like busting out of jail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A moment in time but time was made through that moment: for without the meaning there is no time, and that moment of time gave the... meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where t...he air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and stanch he stands;... And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And the musket moulds in his hands. Time was when the little toy dog was new, And the soldier was passing fair; And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Public morning diversions were the last dissipating habit she obtained; but when that was accomplished, her time was squandered aw...ay, the power of reflection was lost, [and] her ideas were all centered in dress, drums, routs, operas, masquerades, and every kind of public diversion. Visionary schemes of pleasure were continually present to her imagination, and her brain was whirled about by such a dizziness that she might properly be said to labor under the distemper called the vertigo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Realizing that his time was nearly spent, he gave full oral instructions about his burial and the manner in which he wished to be ...remembered.... A few minutes later, feeling very tired, he left the room, remarking, 'I have no disposition to leave this precious circle. I love to be here surrounded by my family and friends.' Then he gave them his blessing and said, 'I am ready to go and I wish you goodnight.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.... I have been one acquainted with the night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »