“106 [degrees] in the valley… I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.”
Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host
Monologue, September 10, 2004
The Tonight Show
C-BS
2004-09-16
Townhall
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2004/09/16/c-bs/page/full/
2004
“106 [degrees] in the valley… I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.”
Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host
Monologue, September 10, 2004
The Tonight Show
“Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
CBS Television interview, on See It Now (12 April 1955); quoted in Shots in the Dark : The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (2001) by Jon Cohen
Context: Edward R. Murrow: Who owns the patent on this vaccine?
Jonas Salk: Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?
David Dixon Porter (1813–1891) United States Navy admiral
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 269
David Shulkin (1959) 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
President-Elect Donald J. Trump Nominates Dr. David J. Shulkin as Secretary of Veterans Affairs https://greatagain.gov/shulkin-302876b6595a#.dym68v896 (January 11, 2017)
George Stephenson (1781–1848) English civil engineer and mechanical engineer
Letter to the directors of the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1821 after seeing the rails being made by John Birkinshaw.
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 609
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
" Challenges and Strategy http://web.archive.org/web/20010218085558/http://bralyn.net/etext/literature/bill.gates/challenges-strategy.txt" (16 May 1991). Note that this quotation has been paired with a misattributed quotation. <br class="br">1990s