Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Burn for Me
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Burn for Me
“My mother and father raised but one question: Is it right, is it duty?”
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960) American financier and philanthropist
As quoted in The Rich man and the Kingdom : John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Protestant establishment (1995) by Albert F. Schenkel, p. 13
Barbara Delinsky (1945) American writer
Source: Escape
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Red, White, and Screwed (2006)
“But now the route that used to wear out a solid day barely takes two hours.”
At nunc, quae solidum diem terebat,
horarum via facta vix duarum.
iii, line 36
Silvae, Book IV
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Surrender
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
The earliest known appearance of this basic statement is a paraphrase of Darwin in the writings of Leon C. Megginson, a management sociologist at Louisiana State University. [[Megginson, Leon C., Lessons from Europe for American Business, Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, 1963, 44(1), 3-13, p. 4]] Megginson's paraphrase (with slight variations) was later turned into a quotation. See the summary of Nicholas Matzke's findings in "One thing Darwin didn't say: the source for a misquotation" http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/one-thing-darwin-didnt-say at the Darwin Correspondence Project. The statement is incorrectly attributed, without any source, to Clarence Darrow in Improving the Quality of Life for the Black Elderly: Challenges and Opportunities : Hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, September 25, 1987 (1988). <br class="br">Misattributed
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
As quoted in Improving the Quality of Life for the Black Elderly: Challenges and Opportunities : Hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, September 25, 1987 (1988)
This quote's earliest known source is from Leon C. Megginson (see Charles Darwin)
Misattributed