Source: Eldest
“I'm a media tart. You tell me one politician that's not a media tart, tell me one that's not.”
Peter Beattie (1952) 36th Premier of Queensland
As quoted in "Beattie an unashamed 'media tart'" in AM Archive (11 May 2000) http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s125625.htm
“It looks like a tart's bedroom.”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
On seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park, as quoted in "48 of Prince Philip's greatest gaffes and funny moments" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/48-prince-philips-greatest-gaffes-funny-moments/, The Telegraph (2 August 2017)
“Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence”
O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer
Source: Selected Stories
“And now, the ABC After School Special, Raisins For Festus.”
Radio From Hell (May 15, 2007)
“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
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Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
Source: Under the Pink
“I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) English writer
Letter to Arthur Moore (February 1899).
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"Harlem"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Context: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore —
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over —
like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
