Boris Karloff (1887–1969) English actor
As quoted in "All He Needed Was a Good Scare" by Samuel Grafton, Good Housekeeping (August 1951), p. 136
Broadcast from liberated Hamburg (1945)
Boris Karloff (1887–1969) English actor
As quoted in "All He Needed Was a Good Scare" by Samuel Grafton, Good Housekeeping (August 1951), p. 136
“My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it”
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Source: The Republic of Thieves
David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music
In the self-interview on Stop Making Sense
“I’m proposing to pay you five thousand dollars to do something you’ll find quite enjoyable.”
Robert Sheckley book Victim Prime
“Make it ten,” Foote said, “and I’ll enjoy it even more.”
Chapter 37 (pp. 151-152)
Victim Prime (1987)
“There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.”
Gordon Brown (1951) British Labour Party politician
Melissa Kite, "Revealed: Brown's furious response to Blair after PM reneged on his promises to quit last year", Sunday Telegraph, 9 January 2005, p. 1.
According to Brown's biographer Robert Peston, Brown made this remark to Tony Blair in October 2004 when Blair announced his intention to fight for a third term of government, after telling Brown he intended to stand down.
Attributed
Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont
2010s, 2016, Democratic Presidential Debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (11 February 2016)
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter V, Sec. 8
Context: Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick,—use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.
Al Sharpton (1954) American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host
From the 2004 DNC