. . . life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.
Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.
Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.
I will jump into most any role.
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.