“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
Source: The Golden Lily
“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
"Love in a Time of War" (31 March 2003)
2000s
Context: It is hard to ignore the prima facie dumbness that got us bogged down in this nasty war in the first place. This is not going to be like Daddy's War, old sport. He actually won, and he still got run out of the White House nine months later... The whole thing sucks. It was wrong from the start, and it is getting wronger by the hour.
“He used to say that "no book was so bad but that some good might be got out of it."”
Dicere etiam solebat nullum esse librum tam malum ut non aliqua parte prodesset..
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 5, 10, referring to Pliny the Elder.
Letters, Book III
Russell Crowe (1964) New Zealand-born Australian actor, film producer and musician
60 Minutes interview (2006)
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
Walls (Circus)
Lyrics, Songs and Music from "She's the One" (1996)
James Taylor (1948) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
"Fire and Rain"
Song lyrics, Sweet Baby James (1970)
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
BBC News online http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6075930.stm <br class="br">Remarks while touring the Forensic Science Service, concerning the police DNA database, 23 October 2006. <br class="br">2000s
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
The 59th Street Bridge Song
Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)
Adele (singer) (1988) British singer-songwriter
Rumour Has It, written by Adele and Ryan Tedder
Song lyrics, 21 (2011)