Merle Haggard (1937–2016) American country music song writer, singer and musician
"Rainbow Stew", on Rainbow Stew Live at Anaheim Stadium (July 1981) · Performance on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEDT7QGDzsE <br class="br">Variant: One of these days when the air clears up <br> And the sun come shining through <br> We'll all be drinking free bubble up <br> And eating some rainbow stew.
“I pictured a rainbow
you held it in your hands
I had flashes
but you saw the plan”
Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician
"The Whole of the Moon" · Video at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TON3PORRDQ <!-- Lower res link Video at Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsNTmjlf1vI --> <br class="br">This Is the Sea (1985) <br class="br">Context: I pictured a rainbow<br>you held it in your hands<br>I had flashes<br>but you saw the plan<br>I wandered out in the world for years<br>you just stayed in your room<br>I saw the crescent<br>You saw the whole of the moon.
“The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.”
John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) American writer
The Century Vol. 44, Issue 4 (August 1892)
Tears (1892)
Context: Not in the time of pleasure
Hope doth set her bow;
But in the sky of sorrow,
Over the vale of woe. Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years!
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.
“I came here to hunt ghosts and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum.”
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Ghost Hunters. October 31, 2006.
Referencing a quote from the movie They Live.
Ghost Hunters
Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (18 September 2007), " Alan Greenspan Interview with Jim Lehrer http://youtube.com/watch?v=yU4WjhijOMY". <br class="br">2000s
Tressie McMillan Cottom American writer, sociologist, and professor
On people of color not having the freedom to live sheltered lives in “Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom: Raising Really Good Hell for People Who Cannot” https://www.guernicamag.com/dr-tressie-mcmillan-cottom-raising-really-good-hell-for-people-who-cannot/ in Guernica Magazine (2019 Mar 20)
“A bubble that goes up is just one that could have crashed but did not.”
Didier Sornette (1957) French scientist
Source: Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003), Chapter 5, Modeling Financial Bubbles And Market Crashes, p. 153.
Macy Gray (1967) American singer-songwriter and actress
"A Moment to Myself" (co-written with Jeremy Ruzumna, Miles Tackett. Mark Morales, and Damon Wimbley)
On How Life Is (1999)
