“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.
Stated at the beginning of his radio show on 13 September 2006.
“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.
“I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
“If even a single hair of my beard learns my secret, I will cut my beard from the root.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)
“My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Rabia Basri Muslim saint and Sufi mystic
as quoted in Early Islamic Mysticism (New York: Paulist Press: 1996), p. 165
Millie Bobby Brown (2004) British actress
"Millie Bobby Brown admits tension with her Stranger Things co-stars" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5546137/Millie-Bobby-Brown-admits-theres-tension-Stranger-Things-stars.html. dailymail.co.uk. (26 March 2018).
“I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.”
Matthew Prior (1664–1721) British diplomat, poet
The Remedy Worse than the Disease (1714).