I see two dingy little rooms with "FOR LADIES" swinging over one and "FOR COLORED PEOPLE" over the other; while wondering under wh...ich head I come, I notice a little way off the only hotel proprietor of the place whittling a pine stick as he sits with one leg thrown across an empty goods box; and as my eye falls on a sample room next door which seems to be driving the only wide-awake and popular business of the commonwealth, I cannot help ejaculating under my breath, "What a field for the missionary woman."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake; And when you think he's half asleep, he's always wide awake....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, includi...ng thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, it... is one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare... in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
you who baited your hook with wide-awake dreams, and calls and letters and once a luncheon,... and twice a reading by me for you. But I wouldn't!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theor...izer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusions; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed. The senses of the savage will furnish him with facts enough to set him up as a philosopher. The ancients can still speak to us with authority, even on the themes of geology and chemistry, though these subjects are thought to have had their birth in modern times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes... it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under that wide hearth a nest of rattlers,... they'll knot a hundred together, had wintered and were coming awake. The warming rock flushed them out early.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »