No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.
I've been number two in films for donkey's years.
One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.
Summer fades; the first cold, Northern air Sweeps, like hatred, through still days - The August heat now gone elsewhere, To Southern, bird-filled coasts and bays; Amid constricting vales of cloud, A pale and liquid Autumn sun That once beat down on an empty plain And may again. And may again.
Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.
One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?