So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agon...ies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Constantly risking absurdity and death... whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw the strange position of his hands Up at his shoulders, dragging yellow strands... Of wire with something in it from men to men. "You here?" I said. "Where aren't you nowadays?..."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be- toothless mo...uth of sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fellow delegates, like all of you I've listened in awe and admiration to the magnificent oratory of the honorable Major Cassius St...arbuckle, the cattlemen's mouthpiece, the lowing herds. But seriously, under the spell of his eloquence I could see once again the vast herd of buffalo and savage redskin roaming our beautiful territory with no law to trample them except the law of survival, the law of the tomahawk and the bow and arrow. But then with the westward march of our nation came the pioneer and the buffalo hunter, the adventurous and the bold. And the boldest of these were the cattlemen who seized the wide-open range for their own personal domain, and their law was the law of the hired gun. Now, now today have come the railroads and the people, hard- working citizens, the homesteader, the shopkeeper, the builder of cities. We need roads to join those cities, dams to store up the waters of the Picket Wire, and we need statehood to protect the rights of every man and woman, however humble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can forget what I said about buying the gun. You're a tenderfoot. Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picket Wire-...-next to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. W...e cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy--"Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be dam...ned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »