Kyril Bonfiglioli (1928–1985) British art dealer
Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972), Ch. 13.
quoting Eissler, p. 193
Final Analysis (1990)
Kyril Bonfiglioli (1928–1985) British art dealer
Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972), Ch. 13.
Joycelyn Elders (1933) American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
Source: [Bob, Sipchen, http://www.aegis.com/news/lt/1997/LT970701.html, Straight Talk From a Straight Shooter Journeys: Joycelyn Elders was known for her outspokenness during her run, Los Angeles Times, E-1, July 3, 1997, 2007-05-20]
“I think about toilets a lot, and how awful it must be to be a toilet.”
Carole Morin British writer
"Thin White Girls" (1984)
“I still felt like I might hurl, and I thought about how awful that would be in midair.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Angel Experiment
Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman : The Killing Joke (1988)
Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
Context: I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
Stephen King book The Green Mile
The Green Mile (1996)
Context: "He kill them with they love", John said. "They love for each other. You see how it was?" I nodded, incapable of speech.
He smiled. The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. "That's how it is every day", he said, "all over the world."
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
I always wonder.
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
Richard Feynman book What Do You Care What Other People Think?
"The Making of a Scientist," p. 11: video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=26s <br class="br">What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988) <br class="br">Context: I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. … There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)