Buddy de Sylva (1895–1950) American musician
Song: If You Knew Susie
California Gurls, written by Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Benjamin Levin, Bonnie McKee, and Calvin Broadus
Song lyrics, Teenage Dream (2010)
Buddy de Sylva (1895–1950) American musician
Song: If You Knew Susie
“Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!"
Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!”
Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures
Variant: Amanda - "Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!" Kyrian - "Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!
Source: Night Pleasures
Loreena McKennitt (1957) Canadian musician and composer
The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Dark Night of The Soul
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
G.U.Y., written by Lady Gaga and Anton Zaslavski
Song lyrics, Artpop (2013)
Smokey Robinson (1940) American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer
I Second That Emotion, written by Smokey Robinson and Al Cleveland (1967)
Song lyrics, With The Miracles
Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 16 “Settling Accounts” sections 2-3 (p. 712)
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Thunder Road"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
“The children of the sun, the children of their sun — oh, how beautiful they were!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), III
Context: The children of the sun, the children of their sun — oh, how beautiful they were! Never had I seen on our own earth such beauty in mankind. Only perhaps in our children, in their earliest years, one might find, some remote faint reflection of this beauty. The eyes of these happy people shone with a clear brightness. Their faces were radiant with the light of reason and fullness of a serenity that comes of perfect understanding, but those faces were gay; in their words and voices there was a note of childlike joy. Oh, from the first moment, from the first glance at them, I understood it all! It was the earth untarnished by the Fall; on it lived people who had not sinned. They lived just in such a paradise as that in which, according to all the legends of mankind, our first parents lived before they sinned; the only difference was that all this earth was the same paradise. These people, laughing joyfully, thronged round me and caressed me; they took me home with them, and each of them tried to reassure me. Oh, they asked me no questions, but they seemed, I fancied, to know everything without asking, and they wanted to make haste to smoothe away the signs of suffering from my face.