“Never run in the rain with your socks on.”
Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist
“Never run in the rain with your socks on.”
Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist
“I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer
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2000s
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
"Barack the Blessed" by Jim Geraghty in National Review (27 July 2004) http://www.nationalreview.com/geraghty/geraghty200407270212.asp quoting Obama on his Presidential aspirations as stated on Meet the Press the previous Sunday. <br class="br">2004
“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
“Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Source: You Suck
Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
As quoted in Williams' Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics (2001), p. 498
Attributed from posthumous publications
Tim Cook (1960) American business executive
During the Q & A session after an earnings call http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/apples-chiefs-offhand-comment-spawns-internet-tribute/ (2012-04-24) <br class="br">Cook was asked about converging touch- and mouse-based operating systems into one product, like Microsoft's Windows 8.