“If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) German painter and printmaker
Remark of 1919, as quoted in German Expressionism 1915-1925 : The Second Generation (1988) by Stephanie Barron. p. 71
Television, Inside the Actor's Studio (2006)
“If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.”
Otto Dix (1891–1969) German painter and printmaker
Remark of 1919, as quoted in German Expressionism 1915-1925 : The Second Generation (1988) by Stephanie Barron. p. 71
“I think the most un-American thing you can say is, “You can't say that.””
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
As quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Democrats (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 171, and The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 204
“I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [ sic] anymore.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“You can't get there alone. In fact, you can't get very far at all.”
Keith Ferrazzi (1966) American businessman and writer
Never Eat Alone
“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”
Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
“You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
Interview with Gary K. Wolfe (28 July 1987), quoted in Harlan Ellison : The Edge of Forever (2002), by Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe
Borrowing a common scientific joke expressing the laws of thermodynamics.
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Nine, Flying and Seeing: New Ways to Learn