I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good versi...on. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Turn 'em loose.... Wherever they go, they'll be on my land. My land. We're here and we're gonna stay here. Gimme ten years and I'l...l have that brand on the gates of the greatest ranch in Texas. The big house'll be down by the river, the corrals and the barns behind it. It'll be a good place to live in. Ten years and I'll have the Red River "D" on more cattle than you've looked at anywhere. I'll have that brand on enough beef to feed the whole country. Good beef for hungry people. Beef to make 'em strong, to make 'em grow. But it takes work, it takes sweat, and it takes time, lots of time. It takes years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ol' man river, dat ol' man river, He must know sumpin', but don't say nothin'... He just keeps rollin', He keeps on rollin' along.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be an editor, as I was. Then to lie here close by the river over the place... Where the sewage flows from the village, And the empty cans and garbage are dumped, And abortions are hidden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog,... Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »