"When I Think Of My People Broken Down", as translated in "The Poetry of Sri Lanka" Journal of South Asian Literature, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1976), published by Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, p. 11 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40872078 <br class="br">Context: The Devil is a Five-headed<br>Snake, says the father.<br>The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one.And then their hearts burn<br>with hate for each others —<br>and they live apart for many years.
“Ruling Yemen is hard. I always say it’s like dancing on the heads of snakes”
Ali Abdullah Saleh (1947–2017) President of North Yemen from 1978 to 1990; President of Yemen from 1990 to 2011
The Man Who Danced on the Heads of Snakes Dec 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/opinion/sunday/yemen-saleh-death-legacy.html
Henri Fayol (1841–1925) Developer of Fayolism
Henri Fayol cited in: Morgen Witzel (2001) Organization Behaviour, 1890-1940, Volume 1. p. 191
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Ellen DeGeneres, commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986
“Cut off the head of the snake”
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (1924–2015) former King of Saudi Arabia
Remarks on Iran http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AS02B20101129 10 December 2010.
“One who is blind throws away even a garland of flower placed on his head, thinking it is a snake.”
Abhijñānaśākuntalam (The Sign of Shakuntala)
Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
Adv. Prax. 18 http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0788/_P1.HTM <br class="br"> Against Praxeas https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0317.htm <br class="br">Original: (la) Igitur unus deus pater, et absque eo alius non est: quod ipse inferens non filium negat sed alium deum: ceterum alius a patre filius non est.
Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) American journalist
Free Speech and Plain Language (1936)
Context: Get up in one of our industrial centres today and say that two and two make four, and if there is any financial interest concerned in maintaining that two and two make five, the police will bash your head in. Then what choice have you, save to degenerate either into a fool or into a hypocrite? And who wants to live in a land of fools and hypocrites?
“Ghidrah was merely meant to be a modern interpretation of the eight-headed snake of Japanese myth.”
Ishirō Honda (1911–1993) Japanese film director
As quoted by David Milner, "Ishiro Honda Interview" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/honda.htm, Kaiju Conversations (December 1992)
