William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Public Address, Blake's Notebook c. 1810
1810s
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Public Address, Blake's Notebook c. 1810
1810s
Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
“People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.”
Bjarne Stroustrup (1950) Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
“Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
On being informed that Faulkner had said that Hemingway "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary." Pt. 1, Ch. 4
Papa Hemingway (1966)
“Pray to the I don't-know-who
I hope : Jesus Christ.”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
Prier le Je Ne Sais Qui
J'espère : Jesus-Christ.
Inscription on his tombstone.
Variant translation: Pray to the I don't-know-who: Jesus Christ, I hope.
As quoted in Parasuicidality and Paradox : Breaking Through the Medical Model (2007) by Ross D. Ellenhorn, p. 55
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
Public Talks, The State of the Onion 11
Jerome David Salinger book Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)
Context: I don't care where an actor acts. It can be in summer stock, it can be over a radio, it can be over television, it can be in a goddam Broadway theatre, complete with the most fashionable, most well-fed, most sunburned-looking audience you can imagine. But I'll tell you a terrible secret — Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. That includes your Professor Tupper, buddy. And all his goddam cousins by the dozens. There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is?... Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.
Carlos Menem (1930) Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999
"A los que vienen hablando de que me voy a bajar de la candidatura, yo les digo: Ni lo piensen, no saben de la fibra de la que está hecho uno"
Said one day before getting off the presidential elections on May 13th, 2003