John Kenneth Galbraith book The Great Crash, 1929
Source: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter III, Something Should Be Done?, Section IV, p. 38
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Great Crash, 1929
Source: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter III, Something Should Be Done?, Section IV, p. 38
“Were you listening to a word I said '
'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.”
Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist
Source: Shades of Grey
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Independence Day"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
This proves that society does not even think that it has a need for such a word. This discloses that society does not think that there are behaviors of wholes unpredicted by the parts. It thinks statistics and probability are all that we need but if “probability” and “statistics” were of any power at all we could not have a stock market or gambling for we would know exactly how things are coming out and no one would bet against the probability.
1960s, Presentation to U.S. Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game (1969)
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I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotional.”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited.”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
PENN Address (2004)
Context: Don't get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited.
I'd just like to say to the parents, your children are safe, your country is safe, the FCC has taught me a lesson and the only four letter word I'm going to use today is P-E-N-N. Come to think of it 'Bono' is a four-letter word. The whole business of obscenity — I don't think there's anything certainly more unseemly than the sight of a rock star in academic robes. It's a bit like when people put their King Charles spaniels in little tartan sweats and hats. It's not natural, and it doesn't make the dog any smarter.
Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995) Member of the United States Senate from Maine
Declaration of Conscience (1950)