That old heel-clicking, hand-kissing routine of his isn't going to get him anywhere with her. The only thing to do with virgins is... to make a ferocious pounce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not offended that these creatures (that's the word) Of my imagination seem to hold me in such light esteem,... Pay so little heed to me. It's part of a complicated Flirtation routine, anyhow, no doubt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cyc...les of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of s...imple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tourist is first of all an adventurer. The dream is of the pioneer, the explorer, the great voyager or the conquering emperor.... He leaves the security of home far behind and sets out beyond the perimeters of the known world for fame, fortune and excitement. He wants to take on the minotaur, scale the Matterhorn, discover a lost Amazonian tribe or sample the delights of a Thai brothel.... The essence of the tourist adventure is exhibited in the contours of the excitements that it provides. And these contours are best inferred from the stories that are told and re-told with animation to relatives, friends and colleagues at home. It is virtually never what has been seen that is recounted with enthusiasm. When the sites are described it is in the form of ritualized cliches: the Eiffel Tower really is a wonder--we went up it, and you get such a nice view. It is rather the personal moments of the tour, moments of near-crisis, that in retrospect were exciting: when one of the suitcases failed to arrive off the luggage chute at Frankfort Airport. Touring itself has been turned into a routine, restricting adventure to those moments when routine breaks down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn...'t want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothe...s off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere sl...ave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they... survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o'clock ... At five I have my abyss."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of of...ficious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defence-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »