Source: CNN, May 11, 2006, speaking of Howard Dean and the 50-State Strategy.
Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician
Quoted in the Australian, "Aboriginal people must get jobs, says Opposition leader Tony Abbott" http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/aboriginal-people-must-get-jobs-says-opposition-leader-tony-abbott/story-fn5tas5k-1225886350430 June 30, 2010. <br class="br">2010
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
His stated response to representatives of the music, publishing and broadcasting industries who had asked Douglas at a conference how he thought technological changes will affect them, apparently hoping his response would be something to the effect of, "not very much"
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future (2001)
“He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
John Green book Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Will Grayson, p. 1 (opening words)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)
Aaron C. Brown (1956) American financial analyst
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 3, Finance Basics, p. 67
“People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“What most impresses the people around the prophet is the personality change he has undergone.”
Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: What most impresses the people around the prophet is the personality change he has undergone.... when stress reaches a certain intensity in the culture, only certain individuals feel called forth to become prophets while most do not. In any event, the prophet has emerged in a new cultural role, and his personality is liberated from the stress that called his response into being in the first place. Immune to the stress under which his brethren still suffer, he must appear to them supernatural.
