What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something s...
But my manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.
While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to re...
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.
It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.
Such polite manners for an armed man who was kidnapping me. Danilo could take a few lessons from him.
A blanket could be used in a secretive manner. What? I can’t just tell you how it could be used. What part of secretive don’t you understand?
My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
My grief lies all within; and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.
She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.
She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.
[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. "Charmed," he said. "Or whatever effect would please you best, I'm sure.
A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.
