“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”
Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.
On a later meeting of Richard Francis Burton, on 8 February 1879, in, Vol. 1, p. 225
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
Context: My first impression of the man as of steel was consolidated and enhanced. He told us, amongst other things, of the work he had in hand. Three great books were partially done. The translation of the Arabian Nights, the metrical translation of Camoëns, and the Book of the Sword. These were all works of vast magnitude and requiring endless research. But he lived to complete them all.
“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”
Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.
“To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.”
Attributed to Augustine by many sources on line, but without an actual reference.
Disputed
“Auberson’s first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack.”
Section 16 (p. 82)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)
“Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.”
Source: A New Model of the Universe (1932), p. 242
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
“Yes, first impressions do count but every single impression counts.”
You cannot fake being positive, but you can practise and teach yourself to appear and act in a positive manner.
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.18
Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1821: ME 15-341, as quoted in The Assault on Reason, Al Gore, A&C Black (2012, reprint), p. 87 : ISBN 1408835800, 9781408835807, and Federal Jurisdiction, Form #05.018, Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (2012)
1820s