As quoted in "Martin Liberals' fate rests with lone MP" https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/martin-liberals-fate-rests-with-lone-mp/article20422060/ (19 May 2005), The Globe and Mail
Source: Hoffa The Real Story (1975), Chapter 1, I'll Be Back, p. 24
Love to Be Loved
Song lyrics, Us (1992)
“The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.”
As quoted in The New York Times (19 September 1957)]
“Now there's no *beeping* way in hell I'm gonna go over because I'm a little afraid of animals.”
From "The Diary of Billy Talent":
"Beyond the Black River" (1935)
Context: "There's nothing in the universe cold steel won't cut," answered Conan. "I threw my ax at the demon, and he took no hurt, but I might have missed in the dusk, or a branch deflected its flight. I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by."
“Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water.”
Commonly quoted on the internet, this quote is actually from Karl Grossman, via his 1980 book Cover Up: What You are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power (p. 155; freely available online via its publisher http://www.thepermanentpress.com/p-354-cover-up.aspx; see PDF page 187).
Misattributed
Dr. Hyde explaining a quote by Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, p. 174
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“If we're all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well make it a party on the way down”
Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
“I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.”
Interview by David Brancaccio, NOW (PBS) (7 October 2005) http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/vonnegut.html
Various interviews
Context: [When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.
