His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology
A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds.
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.
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