John Twist: Jack used to say, "Ennis Del Mar," he used to say; "I'm gonna bring him up here one of these days, and we'll lick this damn ranch into shape. Had some half-baked notion the two of you was gonna move up here. Build a cabin, help run the pl...
The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed fingers, where we see the stretch of red-blood lines of man t...
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride...
He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian Jewish mother who had grown up in poverty, telling stories, often, of extending a chicken to its fullest capacity, so as soon as a restaurant served ...
It was so late and she’d be sleeping He came through her home town With the moonlight on the crossroads And the green light shining down And the bell at the railroad crossing And the horn from far away And his Silver Eagle passing Half a mile from ...
[Barbie is tearing up Ken's outfits to get him to reveal information] Barbie: Let's see... Hawaiian surf trunks! [she rips them in half] Ken: Barbie, those were vintage! It's okay! Go ahead, rip 'em! They're a dime a dozen! Barbie: Ooh! Glitter tux! ...
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.
If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.
There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.
Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.
I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm." Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm.
...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.
The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her.
'Mallory,' he used to say, 'When a woman who can break you in half tells you that you're hers, you nod and agree.'
I hate going through this when we just found...," his voice trailed off. "Found what?" "Each other," he finished, half-smiling.
This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway.
...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...
You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.
It's as if there is infinity between our lips and we will never actually touch. Like math, where dividing by half can last for eternity.