“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”
Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 21
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“You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.”
James Carville (1944) political writer, consultant and United States Marine
On Obama winning the White House
CNN Election Night in America 11/7/2008
Jeremy Clarkson (1960) English broadcaster, journalist and writer
Sunday Times September 6, 2009 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article6823155.ece
Cyndi Lauper (1953) American singer, songwriter, actress and activist
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“So hath he hunted down the gods
As well as human things!”
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
Balder the Beautiful (1877)
Context: “O Balder, he who fashion’d us,
And bade us live and move,
Shall weave for Death’s sad heavenly hair
Immortal flowers of love.
“Ah! never fail’d my servant Death,
Whene’er I named his name,—
But at my bidding he hath flown
As swift as frost or flame.
“Yea, as a sleuth-hound tracks a man,
And finds his form, and springs,
So hath he hunted down the gods
As well as human things!
“Yet only thro’ the strength of Death
A god shall fall or rise —
A thousand lie on the cold snows,
Stone still, with marble eyes.
“But whosoe’er shall conquer Death,
Tho’ mortal man he be,
Shall in his season rise again,
And live, with thee, and me!
“And whosoe’er loves mortals most
Shall conquer Death the best,
Yea, whosoe’er grows beautiful
Shall grow divinely blest.”
The white Christ raised his shining face
To that still bright’ning sky.
“Only the beautiful shall abide,
Only the base shall die!”
Bram Stoker book Dracula
The Keeper in the Zoological Gardens
Source: Dracula (1897)
Context: I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (1995) "Introducing a course on calculi" http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd12xx/EWD1213.PDF (EWD 1213). <br class="br">1990s
Cherríe Moraga (1952) American writer
But there is seldom any analysis of how the very nature and structure of the group itself may be founded on racist or classist assumptions. More important, so often the women seem to feel no loss, no lack, no absence when women of color are not involved; therefore, there is little desire to change the situation. This has hurt me deeply. I have come to believe that the only reason women of a privileged class will dare to look at how it is that they oppress, is when they've come to know the meaning of their own oppression. And understand that the oppression of others hurts them personally.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)
