“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
On the possibility of winning a Tony Award for his performance in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum — reported in Joan Vadeboncoeur (April 21, 1996) "Grasping For Stardom With The Success of 'Birdcage,' Nathan Lane Has Hopes (Again) For An Elusive Broadway Prize", Syracuse Herald American, p. 25.
“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“We hope the peace will last for twenty years. Then we will be here again.”
Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948) Japanese general
To the Sultan of Johore. Quoted in "Key to Japan" - Page 289 - by Willard Price - 1946.
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2008, Election victory speech (November 2008)
“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) American psychologist
Summer notes on social psychology of industry and management at Non-Linear Systems, inc., Del Mar, California, Non-Linear Systems, Inc, 1962, p. 81.
1940s-1960s
Brett Favre (1969) former American football quarterback
Green Bay's big cheese aging gracefully, rockymountainnews.com, October 23, 2007, 2007-12-05 http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/oct/23/green-bay146s-big-cheese-aging-gracefully/,