
“Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
I Am A Dancer (1952)
Context: The body is shaped, disciplined, honoured, and in time, trusted. The movement becomes clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life — the law which governs the outer aspects.
“Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 526.
Misattributed
A phrase she often used, which she credited to her father.
Misattributed
“Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 119
Billy Connolly http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,6000,556340,00.html
Book Sources
“The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!”
As quoted in A Gigantic Mistake (2004) by Mickey Z, p. 171