“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”
Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 7
The Hireling Ministry, None of Christ's (1652)
“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”
Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 7
Isaac Asimov book Puzzles of the Black Widowers
Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 132
General sources
Otis Redding (1941–1967) American singer, songwriter and record producer
I Can't Turn You Loose (1965).
Song lyrics
“Another ship ready to dock… the rigging comes loose… like Jennifer's Veil.”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Jennifer's Veil
Karl E. Weick (1936) Organisational psychologist
Source: 1970s, "Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems," 1976, p. 8
The Second Coming (1919)
Context: p>Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?</p
“All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.”
Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) American teacher and writer
Source: The Greek Way (1930), Ch. 1
“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
“You don't rehearse Mr. T, you just turn him loose.”
Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler
Sylvester Stallone.
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