Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all broken-hearted, for he thought it was possible that he had unknowingly ...upset the ink on the spelling-book himself, in some skylarking bout--he had denied it for form's sake and because it was custom, and had stuck to the denial from principle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but t...heir little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but t...heir little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, t...he failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner. In life, we must begin to give a public performance before we have acquired even a novice's skill; and often our moments of seeming mastery are upset by new demands, for which we have acquired no preparatory facility. Life is a score that we play at sight, not merely before we have divined the intentions of the composer, but even before we have mastered our instruments; even worse, a large part of the score has been only roughly indicated, and we must improvise the music for our particular instrument, over long passages. On these terms, the whole operation seems one of endless difficulty and frustration; and indeed, were it not for the fact that some of the passages have been played so often by our predecessors that, when we come to them, we seem to recall some of the score and can anticipate the natural sequence of the notes, we might often give up in sheer despair. The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moon is door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset.... It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't h...urt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we acknowledge our children's right to want things, as well as their right to be upset when they can't have what they want, i...t can go a long way toward defusing their anger and the tantrums that occur as a result.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Upset at the young wife's first loss of virtue... in a riverside thicket, a flock of birds flies up, mourning the loss with their wings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will sometimes up...set a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »