Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
Here I am
Gett Off
Song lyrics, Diamonds and Pearls (1991)
I Would Die 4 U
Song lyrics, Purple Rain (1984)
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
Here I am
Gett Off
Song lyrics, Diamonds and Pearls (1991)
“Life: I'll never understand it.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Variant: Life: I’ll never understand it.
“I'm not the boy that I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be.”
Nice and Blue.
A→B Life (2002)
“Next time I'll learn to dive maybe, but I'm not a woman.”
Thierry Henry (1977) French association football player
After the 2006 Champions League final.
Source: [Henry denies diving against Spain, http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/teams/france/5123952.stm, BBC Sport, 28 June, 2006, 2006-10-18]
Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
King's comment after the war on Henry L. Stimson, who was United States Secretary of War during World War II, while speaking to Commander Walter Muir Whitehill, who wrote King's memoirs for him. As quoted in American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America To Victory In World War II (2016), p. 473
“Please don't lie to me, unless, you're sure I'll never find out the truth.”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
"The Risk Taker" http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,635799,00.html, profile/interview by Gary Younge, The Guardian (19 January 2002) <br class="br">Context: I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers.