A man assumes that a woman's refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it's n...o. When a woman says no, it's yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect... by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing could his enemies do but it rebounded to his infinite advantage,--that is, to the advantage of his cause.... No theatrical... manager could have arranged things so wisely to give effect to his behavior and words. And who, think you, was the manager? Who placed the slave-woman and her child, whom he stooped to kiss for a symbol, between his prison and the gallows?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a father I had some trouble finding the words to separate the person from the deed. Usually, when one of my sons broke the rule...s or a window, I was too angry to speak calmly and objectively. My own solution was to express my feelings, but in an exaggerated, humorous way: "You do that again and you will be grounded so long they will call you Rip Van Winkle II," or "If I hear that word again, I'm going to braid your tongue."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I prefer to make no new declarations [on southern policy beyond what was in the Letter of Acceptance]. But you may say, if you dee...m it advisable, that you know that I will stand by the friendly and encouraging words of that Letter, and by all that they imply. You cannot express that too strongly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The analogy between baseball fans and jazz fans is closer, it seems to me, than that between other audiences. The aficionados are ...aware of and concerned with the refinements of performance and the particular kinds of poetry in both solo and ensemble performances. (A beautifully executed double steal is as elegant as a Goodman arpeggio.) Like baseball fans, jazz fans know who played where and with whom and to what effect; they talk a rarefied language and drop the names of clarinetists and percussionists as baseball fans do the names of long-forgotten (except by them) shortstops and spitballers. Their retention of detail is prodigious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to th...is effect, "My own destiny made and mended here." (Not yours.) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Away profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause? This refers to that, and that to the next, and the next to the third, ...and everything refers. Thou must ask in another mood, thou must feel it and love it, thou must behold it in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law. Known it will not be, but gladly beloved and enjoyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The day that the Black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he is within his rights, when his own freedom is being j...eopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »