“Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.”
Steve Martin book Shopgirl
Source: Shopgirl
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
“Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.”
Steve Martin book Shopgirl
Source: Shopgirl
“Men smell of leather. … The leather of huntsmen, furniture movers, porters.”
Renée Vivien (1877–1909) British poet who wrote in the French language
Quoted in Mercure de France, I-XII (1953), trans. Jeannette H. Foster (1977)
“Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.”
John Osborne Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger, Act II, sc. I (1956)
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Hey, Porter
Song lyrics, Now Here's Johnny Cash (1961)
“By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 17.
Context: By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
“Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry…”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird